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Official Minutes 


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Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 
Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 
Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 



Minutes of May 14, 1913 












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The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


President 

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Presiding Vice-President 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 

Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 15 Broad St., New York 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D., 154 Nassau St., New York 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon, 154 Nassau St., New York 


Members of the Commission 

(Revised to May 15, 1913. Names of Trustees in Italics.) 


Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Newton D. Ailing 
B. Altman 
Louis Annin Ames 
John Aspegren 
Vifieent As tor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Charles Beckman 


August Belmont 

Tunis G. Bergen 

Hon. William Berri 

Charles A. Berrian 

Union N. Bet hell 

F. S. Bishop 

Rudolph Block 

Solomon Bloom 

Samuel J. Bloomingdale 

E. C. Blum 
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Henry 1. ^rence Bogert 
George C. Boldt 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 




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Members of the Commission 


H. A. Bonnell 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
E. B. Boynton 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown , Ph. D., LL. D. 
James W. Brown 
John Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

William A. Camp 
James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie. LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 
E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas IV. Churchill 
Henry Clews 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Robert Grier Cooke 

Cesare Conti 

John C. Cook 

P. H. Coombs 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

John B. Creighton 

Hon. John D. Crimmins 

Hon. George Cromwell 

William N. Cromwell 

Warren Cruikshank 

Col. Michael J. Cummings 

Andrew Cuneo 

Charles F. Daly 

Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 

John D. DeFriest 


William D. Dickey 

Charles H. Ditson 

John Dowd 

Henry Russell Drowne 

Hon. Michael J. Drummond 

Gen. George R. Dyer 

John C. Eames 

Edward Earl 

George L. Egbert 

George Ehret 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Bert hold Flesch, M. D. 

William H. Fletcher 

Joseph N. Francolini 

W. C. Freeman 

Charles H. Fuller 

Michael Furst 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. Gould 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

T. Greidanus 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

Dr. William H. Hale 

Edward Hagama7i Hall L. H.D, 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Ernest Harvier 

John A. Hennessy 

A. B. Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 




Members of the Commission 


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Edward Holbrook 
Richard G. Hollaman 
Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 
Walter B. Hopping 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
A. E. Johnson 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Cornelius G. Kolff 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Hans Lagerlof 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
William J. Lee 

Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
W> V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 
James B. Mabon 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
William A. Marble 
Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 

S. C. Mead 
S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 
L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
Henry Morgenthau 
Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 


George W. Neville 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Oliphant 
Eugene H. Outerbridge 
Henry F. Osborn, Ph. D.,LL. D. 
Willis S. Paine 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
Ralph Peters 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Lewis E. Pierson 
W. H. Pleasants 
Hon. William A. Prendergast 
Hon. C. A. Pugsley 
H. H. Raymond 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reick 
Charles E. Reid 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Bidder 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlessinger 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 


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Members of the Commission 


Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
Dr. Edward W. Stitt 
Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
William J. Underwood 
Theodore N. Vail 
Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Cliff 
Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
F. A. Vanderlip 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 


Judson G. Wall 
John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Edmund Wetmore 
Warren Whitney 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
Hon. William R. Willcox 
Arthur Williams 
T. S. Williams 
Louis Windmuller 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Wool worth 
James C. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 


Albany.Hon. James B. McEwan 

Amsterdam.Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn.Hon. Thomas H. O’Neill 

Binghamton.Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua.Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes.Hon. James F. Scott 

Corning.Hon. Frederick A. Ellison 

Cortlandt.-Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk.Hon. Harry B. Lyon 

Elmira.Hon. Daniel Sheehan 

Fulton.Hon. John E. Boland 

Geneva.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls.Hon. W. Irving Griffing 

Gloversville.Hon. Alden L. Henry 

Hornell.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson .Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca.Hon. John Reamer 

Jamestown.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown.Hon. Abraham Harrison 

Kingston. Hon. Roscoe Irwin 

Lackawanna.Hon. Robert H. Reed 

























Members of the Commission 


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Little Falls.Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport.Hon. George H. Brock 

Middletown.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh.Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Frederick H. Waldorf 

New York.Hon. William J. Gaynor 

Niagara Falls.Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda. Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh.Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. Peter C. Folej' - 

Oneida.Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta.Hon. Frank D. Blodgett 

Oswego.David D. Lang 

Plattsburgh.Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. W. H. Nearpass 

Poughkeepsie.Hon. William H. Frank 

Rensselaer. 

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Rochester.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

Rome.Hon. Stewart E. Townsend 

Schenectady.Hon. George R. Lunn 

Syracuse. Hon. Edward Schoeneck 

Tonawanda.Hon. Charles Zuckmaier 

Troy.Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica.Hon. Frank J. Baker 

Watertown..Hon. Francis M. Hugo 

Watervliet.Hon. Edwin Joslin 

Yonkers.Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton. 

Catskill. 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth. 

Cornwall. 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson 

Dobbs Ferry. 

Fishkill. 

Fishkill Landing . 
Fort Edward. 


Hon. Charles M. Selleck 

Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Benjamin Hammond 
Hon. Alfred Brown 










































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Members of the Commission 


Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Matteawan. 

Mechanicville ... 

North Tarrytown 

Nyack. 

Ossining. 

Peekskill. 

Piermont. 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck... 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls ... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills. 

Wappingers Falls 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw .. 


Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 

Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 

Hon. J, A. Frost 

Hon. William A. Camfield 


Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 

Hon. William S. Massoneau 

Hon. William Ziegler 

Hon. R. S. Sherman 
Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 


Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 


Hon. Louis Adler 




























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Preface 

In December, 1912, the Hon. William J. Gaynor, Mayor 
of the City of New York, at the request of representatives 
of several commercial bodies* and historical organizations, 
appointed a committee of citizens to consider the subject 
of celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the 
settlement of Manhattan Island. The letters of appoint¬ 
ment sent by the Mayor’s Secretary to the members of the 
committee read as follows : 

“CITY OF NEW YORK 

“OFFICE OF THE MAYOR 

“ December 30, 1912. 

“ Dear Sir : 

“ I am directed by the Mayor to inform you that he has appointed 
you a member of a committee to determine, first, whether there shall 
be a celebration by the people of this City of the 300th anniversary of 
the settlement of Manhattan Island ; and, second, to prepare for and 
carryout such celebration if it be determined on. The Mayor named 
this committee at the request of some citizens who believe such a cele¬ 
bration would be appropriate. In appointing the committee the 
Mayor wishes it understood that the holding of this celebration of the 
settlement of Manhattan Island should not be taken for granted but 
should be carefully considered. 

“The first meeting of the committee will be held at the City Hall 
on Wednesday afternoon, January 8th, at two o’clock, when you are 
requested to be present. 

“ Yours truly, 

“ Robert Adamson, 

“ Secretary.” 

His Honor the Mayor opened the meeting on January 
8, 1913. After his address the committee effected a tempo¬ 
rary organization with Mr. Louis Annin Ames as Chairman 
and Mr. A. E. MacKinnon as Secretary, and referred to a 
sub-committee of which Mr. Ames was Chairman the 
questions whether a celebration should be held and, if 
so, the date of the celebration and event to be celebrated. 

At the meeting of the sub-committee the fact of the 
permanent settlement of Manhattan Island in 1613 was 

* The movement was inaugurated iu August, 1912, by the Merchants and Manufac¬ 
turers Exchange, of which Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter is President. 1 he body had the 
assistance of Mr. A. H. Stoddard, who was Captain of Pageantry of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission, in securing the co-operation of others. 



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questioned,* but it was pointed out that the text of the 
first charter granted in 1614 by the States General of the 
United Netherlands for trading to New Netherland was a 
matter of record, and it was the opinion of the committee 
that the celebration of the commercial tercentenary in 
1914 would be not only historically appropriate, but also 
in harmony with the idea of the projectors of the celebra¬ 
tion; and, furthermore, that it would enlist the wider 
interest of the State and the country at large. On Janu¬ 
ary 31, 1913, therefore, the sub-committee reported back 
to the general committee, through Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
recommending that the celebration be held in 1914, and 
that it commemorate the 300th anniversary of the begin¬ 
ning of the regularly chartered commerce of what are now 
the city and state of New York. 

The recommendation was adopted and the committee 
organized permanently with the following officers: 

Chairman : Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Vice Presidents: Hon. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice 
President; Mr. Vincent Astor, Mr. August Belmont, Mr. 
Anthony N. Brady, Andrew Carnegie, LL. D., Gen. Howard 
Carroll, Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Mr. George J. Gould, 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., Mr. Clarence H. Mackay, 
J. Pierpont Morgan, LL. D.,f Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Col. 
Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Theodore P. 
Shonts, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. 
James Speyer, Mr. Henry R. Towne, Mr. Theodore N. Vail, 
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford* and Mr. William Ziegler, Jr. 

Treasurer: Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary : Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Assistant Secretary : Mr. A. E. MacKinnon. 

Pursuant to a resolution adopted at the foregoing 
meeting, the Chairman on February 8, 1913, appointed 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien and Col. 

* Upon the facade of the new Municipal Building is the inscription, “New Amster¬ 
dam MDCXXVI,” which is the generally accepted date of the permanent settlement of 
Manhattan Island. 

+Now deceased. 


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Henry W. Sackett a committee to draft an act of incor¬ 
poration and request its passage by the Legislature. The 
draft prepared by this committee, embodying the provisions 
of the act incorporating the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission and acts amendatory thereof, was introduced 
in the Senate February 24, 1913, by Hon. James A. Foley 
of New York. It passed both houses without opposition 
and became chapter 313 of the laws of 1913 by the signa¬ 
ture of Governor Sulzer an April 17. The law reads as 
follows : 


Act of Incorporation 

An Act to establish the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof. 

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section 1. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Herman Ridder, Louis Annin 
Ames, August Belmont, Union N. Bethell, Henry L. Bogert, Elmer 
Ellsworth Brown, Jacob A. Cantor, Andrew Carnegie, Howard Carroll, 
Joseph H. Choate, Thomas W. Churchill, Cesare Conti, George B. 
Cortelyou, Fred B. Dalzell, John H. Finley, George J. Gould, Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Ernest Harvier, Franklin W. Hooper, William A. 
Johnston, Lucien Jouvaud, George F. Kunz, Henry M. Leipziger, A. 
E. Mac Kinnon, William A. Marble, J. Pierpont Morgan, William C. 
Muschenheim, Morgan J. O’Brien, Eben E. Olcott, Henry Fairfield 
Osborn, Alton B. Parker, N. Taylor Phillips, William C. Reick, 
Edward P. V. Ritter, John D. Rockefeller, Junior, Henry W. Sackett, 
Jacob H. Schiff, Isaac N. Seligman, Theodore P. Shonts, Robert A. 
C. Smith, James Speyer, Charles Steckler, Henry R. Towne, Theodore 
N. Vail, William R. Willcox, Arthur Williams, William Ziegler, Junior, 
Berthold Flesch, M. J. Cummings and George R. Dyer and all such 
persons as may now or hereafter be associated with them by appoint¬ 
ment by the Governor of the state of New York or the Mayor of the 
city of New York, together with such persons, not to exceed fifty in 
number, who may be elected by the Trustees of the commission created 
by this act; the Mayors of all of the cities of the state ex officio, and 
the Presidents of the villages of Athens, Castleton, Cat skill. Cold 
Spring, Corinth, Cornwall, Coxsackie, Croton-on-Hudson, Dobbs 
Ferry, Fishkill, Fishkill Landing, Fort Edward, Green Island, Hastings- 
on-Hudson, Haverstraw, Hudson Falls, Irvington, Matteawan, Me- 
chanicville, North Tarrytown, Nyack, Ossining, Peekskill, Piermont, 


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Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Saugerties, Schuylerville, South Glens Falls, 
South Nyack, Stillwater, Tarrytown, Tivoli, Upper Nyack, Victory 
Mills, Wappingers Falls, Waterford and West Haverstraw, ex officio, 
shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the 
name of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, which 
corporation shall be a public corporation with all the powers specified 
in the eleventh section of the general corporation law, except as 
otherwise provided by this act. It shall have no capital stock. 

Section 2. The object of said corporation shall be the public cel¬ 
ebration or commemoration, in such manner and form either perma¬ 
nent or temporary as may be found appropriate by such commission, 
of the three-hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the regularly 
chartered commerce of what is now the state of New York under the 
auspices of the States General of the United Netherlands in the year 
sixteen hundred and fourteen. 

Section 3. The said commission shall have power to acquire, 
hold and possess for the purposes of its incorporation real or personal 
estate within the state of New York in fee or for a term of years or 
any easement therein, by gift, devise, bequest, grant, lease or purchase; 
and in case such commission should be unable to agree with the 
owners thereof for the purchase or lease of any real estate required 
for the purposes of its incorporation, it shall have the right to acquire 
the same, by condemnation, in the manner provided by the condem¬ 
nation law, being chapter twenty-three of the code of civil procedure; 
provided, however, that no real property shall be acquired by condem¬ 
nation within the city of New York until after the approval of the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment of that city. 

Section 4. The affairs and business of said commission shall be 
conducted by a board of not less than twenty-five nor more than one 
hundred Trustees, a quorum of whom for the transaction of business 
shall be fixed by the by-laws. The Trustees for the first year shall be 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Herman Ridder, Louis Annin Ames, August 
Belmont, Union N. Bethell, Henry L. Bogert, Elmer Ellsworth Brown, 
Jacob A. Cantor, Andrew Carnegie, Howard Carroll, Joseph H. 
Choate, Thomas W. Churchill, Cesare Conti, George B. Cortelyou, 
Fred B. Dalzell, John H. Finley, George J. Gould, Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Ernest Harvier, Franklin W. Hooper, William A. Johnston, 
Lucien Jouvaud, George F. Kunz, Henry M. Leipziger, A. E. MacKin¬ 
non, William A. Marble, J. Pierpont Morgan, William C. Muschen- 
heim, Morgan J. O’Brien, Eben E. Olcott, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 
Alton B. Parker, N. Taylor Phillips, William C, Reick, Edward P. V- 
Ritter, John D. Rockefeller, Junior, Henry W. Sackett, Jacob H. 
Schiff, Isaac N. Seligman, Theodore P. Shonts, Robert A. C. Smith, 


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James Speyer, Charles Steckler, Henry R. Tovvne, Theodore N. Vail, 
William R. Willcox, Arthur Williams, William Ziegler, Junior, Ber- 
thold Flesch, M. J. Cummings, George R. Dyer and such others as 
may be added thereto in accordance with the by-laws. Such Trustees 
shall make the by-laws of the commission, providing among other 
things for the election of their successors within thirteen months from 
the passage of this act, and for the election of officers, as therein spe¬ 
cified, to hold office until the succeeding annual election of Trustees, 
and until their successors are elected, and for the filling of vacancies 
in any office. They shall continue to hold office until the succeeding 
election of Trustees to the number and in the manner provided by the 
said by-laws. 

Section 5. None of the Trustees or members of said commission, 
except the Secretary and one or more assistants to the Secretary, shall 
receive any compensation for services, nor shall any of them be pecu¬ 
niarily interested directly or indirectly in any contract relating to the 
affairs of said commission; nor shall said commission make any divi¬ 
dend or division of its property among its members, managers or offi¬ 
cers; nor shall any member of the commission nor any Trustee be liable 
individually for any of its debts or liabilities. 

Section 6. Said commission shall annually make to the Legislature 
a statement of its affairs, and from time to time report to the Legisla¬ 
ture such recommendations as are pertinent to the objects for which 
it is created, and may act jointly or otherwise with any persons ap¬ 
pointed by any other state for purposes similar to those intended to be 
accomplished by this act. 

Section 7. Whenever the commission shall report to the Legisla¬ 
ture that the purposes for which the commission is created have been 
attained and all its debts and obligations have been paid, its remaining 
real and personal property shall be disposed of as the Legislature may 
direct. 

Section 8. The commission shall have power to receive subscrip¬ 
tions from parties who may desire to contribute to the object of the 
said commission. 

Section 9. The commission shall, as requested by the Governor, 
from time to time render to him reports of its proceedings. 

Section 10. The city of New York may provide for the said com¬ 
mission such sums of money as the city shall deem expedient, and in 
such a manner as it shall deem proper for the purpose of carrying out 
the objects of the commission. 

Section 11. The duration of the corporation shall be five years. 

Section 12. This act shall take effect immediately. 


Minutes of Trustees 


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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

May 14, 1913 

The first meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission, incorporated by 
chapter 313 of the laws of 1913 of the State of New York 
was held pursuant to call in the Council Chamber in the 
City Hall, New York City, Wednesday afternoon, May 14, 
1913, at 3 o’clock. 

Roll Call 

Present : Mr. Henry Lawrence Bogert, Hon. Jacob 

A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Commodore Frederick 

B. Dalzell, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Mr. Ernest Harvier, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. William 
A. Johnston, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry 
W. Sackett and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Louis 
Annin Ames, Dr. Elmer E. Brown, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hon. 
Alton B. Parker, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Robert 
A. C. Smith, Mr. James Speyer, Mr. Charles A. Towne 
and Hon. William R. Wilcox and they were excused. 

Temporary Organization 

The meeting was called to order by Mr. Vanderbilt, 
the Chairman of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Committee which preceded the Commission, who stated 
that the Committee had been incorporated as a Com¬ 
mission by chapter 313 of the laws of 1913, and that this 
meeting of the Trustees named in the act of incorpora¬ 
tion had been called for the purpose of effecting an organ¬ 
ization under the charter. 


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May 14, 1913 

Mr. Ridder moved that Mr. Vanderbilt be elected 
President pro tempore and put the motion, which was 
unanimously carried. 

Mr. Phillips nominated Mr. Hall for Secretary pro 
tempore and he was unanimously elected. 


Adoption of By-laws 

Senator Cantor moved that the By-laws of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission be adopted as the By-laws 
of this Commission with the necessary change of date and 
the increase of the number of Vice-Presidents from 15 to 25. 
These By-laws had been drafted by a committee consisting 
of the late Justice William W. Goodrich, Hon. James M. 
Beck, Col. Henry W. Sackett, and others with great care 
and had stood the test of the four years’ use by that Com¬ 
mission. 

The motion was unanimously carried. The By-laws 
are as follows : 

ARTICLE I 

Section 1. Office. The office and place of business of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission shall be in the City of 
New York, where all meetings shall be held unless otherwise ordered 
by the Trustees. 

Section 2. Trustees Meetings. The regular meetings of the 
Trustees shall be held on the fourth Wednesday of each month, pro¬ 
vided that when such date of meeting shall fall on a holiday, the meet¬ 
ing shall be held on the following day. 

Section 3. Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting of the 
members of the Commission for the election of Trustees and for the 
transaction of such other business as may come before it shall be held 
on the first Wednesday after the first Monday of May, each year, at 
3 P. M. 

Section 4. Other Meetings. Other meetings of the Trustees 
or Commission may be held upon the call of the President, and must 
be called by him upon the written requests of ten Trustees. 

Section 5. Quorum. At meetings of the Trustees fifteen shall 
constitute a quorum, and at meetings of the Commission the members 
who are present shall constitute a quorum. 

Section 6. Notices. Notices of meetings of the Trustees shall 
be sent to each Trustee at least two days before the time of meeting. 


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ARTICLE II 

Section i. Officers. The officers of the Commission shall be a 
President, twenty-five Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer, all 
of whom shall be Trustees, and shall be elected annually at the meeting 
of the Trustees in May and shall hold office for one year, and until 
others are elected in their stead. There may be one or more Assistant 
Secretaries who shall be appointed by and hold office at the pleasure 
of the Trustees. 

Section 2. Trustees. The number of Trustees shall be 100, who 
shall be elected annually by the persons named and designated in the 
first section of the Charter. The Trustees named in the Charter may 
appoint additional Trustees to hold office until the election in 1914, 
but the whole number of Trustees shall not at any time exceed 100. 

Seel ion 3. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Trustees or 
Officers may be - filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the 
Trustees present at any duly called meeting. When a Trustee shall 
have absented himself from three successive meetings, the Trustees 
may, in their discretion, declare the office vacant, and elect a Trustee 
for the unexpired term. 

Section 4. President. The President shall preside at all meet¬ 
ings of the Trustees and of the Commission; he shall appoint all 
committees; and be Chairman of the Executive Committee and ex- 
officio a member of all standing committees except when otherwise 
expressly relieved from such service, and he shall have a general 
supervision of the affairs of the Commission. 

Section 5. Vice-Presidents. In the absence of the President 
or his inability to act, one of the Vice-Presidents, to be designated by 
him in writing, shall perform his duties and possess his powers. If he 
make no designation, it shall be made by the Trustees. 

Section 6. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall receive, collect and 
hold subject to the order of the Board of Trustees all moneys, securities 
and deeds belonging or due to the Commission, pay all bills when 
approved by the Trustees or the Executive Committee, deposit all 
money of the Commission in some depository to be approved by the 
Trustees, and render a report of the finances at each meeting of the 
Board of Trustees and at the Annual Meeting of the Commission 
Money shall be drawn only on the check of the Treasurer counter¬ 
signed by the President or Secretary. 

Section 7. Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the records of 
the Commission, of the Board of Trustees and of Committees, issue 
all notices, and perform the other duties ordinarily incident to that 
office, and when directed by the Trustees, affix the seal of the 
Commission. 


May 14, 1913 1 7 

Section 8. Assistant-Secretaries. The Assistant-Secretaries 
shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them. 

ARTICLE III 

Section 1. Order of Business. The order of business of meet¬ 
ings of the Commission shall be as follows, unless otherwise ordered ; 
1, Roll call; 2, Reading of minutes of the meetings not previously 

read; 3, Election of Trustees; 4, Report of Treasurer; 5, Reports 
of Committees; 6, Communications; 7, Miscellaneous business. 

Section 2. Reports , Resolutions and Votes. At meetings of the 
Commission and Board of Trustees reports and resolutions shall be in 
writing. The yeas and nays shall be called on all resolutions authoriz¬ 
ing the expenditure of money, and on all other questions, when 
requested by one member. 


ARTICLE IV 

Executive Committee. There shall be an Executive Committee 
which shall consist of the Officers of the Commission and twenty-five 
other Trustees. It shall have general management of the affairs of 
the Commission, subject to the approval of the Trustees, and shall 
meet at least once a month. Seven of its number shall constitute a 
quorum. It shall elect one of its number as Vice-Chairman who shall 
preside in the absence of the Chairman, and who shall perform such 
other duties as may be conferred upon him by such Committee, not 
inconsistent with these By-laws. It shall appoint such sub-committees 
and confer such powers thereon as it may deem advisable. A special 
meeting of the Executive Committee must be called by the Chairman 
upon the written request of five members, the purpose of such meeting 
to be stated in the call. 


ARTICLE V 

Seal. The seal of the Commission shall be (description to be 
inserted after the adoption of the seal. See page 18 following.) 

ARTICLE VI 

Amendments. Amendments to these By-laws may be proposed 
in writing at any meeting of the Trustees. If 25 of the Trustees be 
present any amendment may be adopted by unanimous consent; 
otherwise it shall be postponed until a subsequent meeting, in which 
case the Secretary shall, with the notice of the next meeting, send a 
copy of the proposed amendment, stating that it will be brought up 
for action at such meeting, when it may be passedby a majority vote. 




Minutes of Trustees 


18 


Permanent Officers Elected 

The President pro tempore stated that the By-laws 
having been adopted in accordance with the Charter, it was 
in order to elect permanent officers, whereupon the follow¬ 
ing, nominated respectively by Dr. Finley, Commodore 
Dalzell, Mr, Ridder, Mr. MacKinnon and Mr. Johnston, 
were unanimously elected: 

President : Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt ; 

Presiding Vice-President: Hon. Herman Ridder; 

Treasurer : Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary : Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall ; 

Assistant Secretary : Mr. A. E. MacKinnon. 

Mr. Vincent As tor Elected a Trustee 

Mr. Ritter moved that Mr. Vincent Astor, who at his 
own request had not been named in the act of incorporation 
among the original incorporators, but who had consented 
to serve on the Board, be elected a Trustee. Unanimously 
carried. 

Nominating Committee Appointed 

Attention was called to the fact that the By-laws pro¬ 
vided for twenty-four Vice-Presidents in addition to the one 
elected at this meeting; and for 49 Trustees in addition to 
the 51 named in the Charter. 

Mr. Phillips moved that the President be authorized 
to appoint a committee to nominate such additional Vice- 
Presidents and Trustees for election at the next meeting. 
Carried. 

The President appointed as such committee Mr. Ridder, 
Gen. Carroll and Col. Sackett. 

Committee on Official Seal Appointed 

It was voted on motion of Mr. Ridder that the Presi¬ 
dent be authorized to appoint a committee to recommend 
the design for the official seal of the corporation ; and the 
President appointed as such committee Dr. Kunz, Dr. Finley 
and the Secretary. 


May 14, 1913 19 

Printing of Minutes Authorized 

It was voted on motion of Commodore Dalzell that 
the Secretary be authorized to have the minutes of the 
Trustees printed regularly and sent to all the members of 
the Commission. 

Place of Meeting 

Mr. Ridder offered ;the use of his library at No. 182 
William Street for the meetings of the Trustees, and Com¬ 
modore Dalzell said he thought he could arrange for meet¬ 
ings in the Chamber of Commerce if desired. 

It was voted that the next meeting of the Trustees be 
held at No. 182 William Street, at 2 P. M., on Wednesday, 
May 28. 

Officers Empowered to Make Arrangements 

On motion of Mr. Ridder it was voted that the Exec¬ 
utive Officers be empowered to make such other arrange¬ 
ments as might be necessary. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


Note 

The pages of subsequent minutes will be numbered 
consecutively with the foregoing. It is recommended that 
members who desire to have their minutes bound in book 
form after the celebration preserve these pamphlets as they 
are printed from time to time. 







































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21 


Official Minutes 


OF 


TheN ew York Commercial 
1 ercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of May 28, 1913 




The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


President 

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 


V ice-Presidents 

Presiding Vice-President and Acting President 
Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 15 Broad St., New York 


Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D., 154 Nassau St., New York 


Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon, 154 Nassau St., New York 


Members of the Commission 

(Revised to June 15, 1913. Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

Hon. Robert Adamson Newton D. Ailing 

John Adikes B. Altman 




Members of the Commission 


2 


Louis Annin Ames 
John Aspegren 
Vincent As tor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Union N. Bet hell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
E. B. Boynton 
Anthony N. Brady 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D., LL . D. 
James W. Brown 
John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

William A. Camp 
James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie. LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 


John Carstensen 
E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
Henry Clews 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

Cesare Conti 

P. H. Coombs 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarks 071 Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

John B. Creighton 

Hon. John D. Crimmins 

Hon. George Cromwell 

William N. Cromwell 

Warren Cruikshank 

Col. Michael J. Cummings 

Andrew Cuneo 

Charles F. Daly 

Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 

M. E de Aguero 

John D. DeFriest 

William D. Dickey 

Charles H. Ditson 

John Dowd 

Henry Russell Drowne 

Hon. Michael J. Drummond 

Gen. George R. Dyer 

John C. Eames 

Edward Earl 

George L. Egbert 

George Ehret 

Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 


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Members of the Commission 


Bert hold Flesch, M. D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 

W. C. Freeman 

Charles H. Fuller 

Michael Furst 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. GoulcT 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

T. Greidanus 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

Dr. William H. Hale 

Edward Hagaman Hall L. H.D. 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Ernest Harvier 

John A. Hennessy 

A. B. Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 
Walter B. Hopping 
G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
A.E. Johnson 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Cornelius G. Koljf 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 


Hans Lagerlof 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 
H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
William J. Lee 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 
Ja?nes B. Mabon 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
William A. Marble 
E. E. Martin 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
S. C. Mead 
S. A. Miles 
Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 
L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
J. P. Morgan 
Henry Morgenthau 
Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 
George W. Neville 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Oliphant 
Eugene H. Outerbridge 
Henry F. Osborn, Ph. D., LL. D. 
Willis S. Paine 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
Ralph Peters 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 


Members of the Commission 


25 


Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. William A. Prendergast 

Hon. C. A. Pugsley 

H. H. Raymond 

Fred A. Reed 

William C. Reick 

Charles E. Reid 

Rev. Christian F. Reisner 

Hon. Herman Ridder 

Edward P. V. Ritter 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schijf 
Leo Schlessinger 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Theodore P. Shouts 
Henry Siegel 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
James Speyer 
Charles E. SJratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
Dr. Edward W. Stitt 


Hon. Charles B. Stover 

Hon. James E. Sullivan 

Willard U. Taylor 

Hon. Calvin Tomkins 

Charles A. Towne 

Henry R. Towne 

Albert Ulmann 

William J. Underwood 

Theodore N. Vail 

Lee J. Vance 

William S. Van Cliff 

Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 

William K. Vanderbilt 

F. A. Vanderlip 

Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 

Judson G. Wall 

John Wanamaker 

Paul M. Warburg 

Hon. James L. Wells 

Edmund Wetmore 

Warren Whitney 

Major Robert A. Widenmann 

Hon. William R. Willcox 

* 

Arthur Williams 
T. S. Williams 
Francis M. Wilson 
Louis Windmuller 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Woolworth 
James C. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 

Albany . Hon James B. Me Ewan 

Amsterdam.Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn..Hon. Thomas H. O’Neill 

Binghamton.Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo. Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua.Hon. Peter P. Turner 








26 Members of the Commission 

Cohoes . Hon. Janies F. Scott 

Corning. Hon. Frederick A. Ellison 

Cortlandt.Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk.:.Hon. Harry B. Lyon 

Elmira.Hon. Daniel Sheehan 

Fulton. Hon. John E. Boland 

Geneva. Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. IV. Irving Gripping 

Gloversville.Hon. Alden L. Henry 

Hornell.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . . Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca. Hon. John Reamer 

Jamestown ... .Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown.Hon. Abraham Harrison 

Kingston . Hon. Roscoe Irwin 

Lackawanna.Hon. Robert H. Reed 

Little Falls.Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport.Hon. George H. Brock 

Middletown.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh ... Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Frederick H. Waldorf 

New York.Hon. William J. Gaynor 

Niagara Falls.Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda.Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh.Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. Peter C. Foley 

Oneida.Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta ..Hon. Frank D. Blodgett 

Oswego..David D. Lang 

Plattsburgh.Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. W. H. Nearpass 

Poughkeepsie . Hon. William H. Frank 

Rensselaer . Ho'n. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

R° me .Hon. Stewart E. Townsend 

Schenectady.Hon. George R. Lunn 

Syracuse.Hon. Edward Schoeneck 

Tonawanda. Hon. Charles Zuckmaier 

Froy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica.Hon. Frank J. Baker 

Watertown. .Hon. Francis M. Hugo 












































Members of the Commission 


2 7 


Watervliet .. Hon. Edwin Jo slut 

Yonkers . Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton. 

Catskill. 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth.... . 

Cornwall. 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson .. 

Dobbs Ferry. 

Fishkill. 

Fishkill Landing 

Fort Edward .. 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Matteawan. 

Mechanicville. 

North Tarrytown 

Nyack. 

Ossining.. 

Peekskill. 

Piermont. 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck. 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls .. 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli.. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills. 

Wappingers Falls... 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw .. 


Hon. D. W. Travis 
Hon. Christian Peters 
Hon. Willis A. Haines 
Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
Hon. J. Finley Work 
Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Benjamin Hammond 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. J. A. Frost 
Hon. William A. Camfield 


Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 

Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 
Hon. R. S. Sherman 
, Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 

Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 











































28 


Minutes of Trustees 


Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

May 28, 1913 


The second meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held at No. 
182 William Street, New York City, Wednesday, May 28, 
1913, at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: The President, Commodore Cornelius Van¬ 
derbilt, presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Chancellor 
Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Mr. Cesare Conti, Commodore 
Fred B. Dalzell, Dr. Berthold Flesch, Mr. Edward Haga- 
man Hall, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
William C. Muschenheim, Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, Hon. 
N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. 
V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett and Hon. Robert A. C. 
Smith. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Dr. 
John H. Finley, Mr. Charles A. Steckler and Mr. Arthur 
Williams, and they were excused. 

Death of Mr. William H. Fletcher 

The President announced the death on April 2, 1913, 
of Mr. William H. Fletcher of No. 777 West End Avenue, 
one of the original members of the Mayor’s Committee, 
and the Secretary was directed to make appropriate record. 


May 28, 1913 


29 


Appointment by the Mayor 

A communication dated May 27 from the Mayor’s Sec¬ 
retary was read, communicating the appointment by the 
Mayor of Mr. Albert Ulmann of No. 111 Broadway as a 
member of the Commission, and the Secretary was directed 
to enter his name on the records. 

Election of Trustees 

The Committee on Nominations, consisting of Col. 
Henry W. Sackett, Hon. Herman Ridder and Gen. Howard 
Carroll, reported through Col. Sackett as follows: 

“ Your Nominating Committee recommends the follow¬ 
ing named 26 gentlemen for election as Trustees of the 
Commission in addition to those already on the Board: 

“Mr. John Aspegren, President of the New York Pro¬ 
duce Exchange; Mr. H. A. Bonnell, General Manager of 
the Automobile Board of Trade; Mr. William A. Camp, 
President of the New York Fruit Exchange; Mr. Clarkson 
Cowl, of the firm of James A. Hearn & Son; Mr. Charles 
H. Fuller, President of the Brooklyn League; Mr. Bene¬ 
dict J. Greenhut, of the Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co.; Mr. 
Cornelius G. Kolff, Secretary of the Staten Island Chamber 
of Commerce; Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Secretary of the Swedish 
Chamber of Commerce; Mr. James B. Mabon, President of 
the New York Stock Exchange; Mr. Clarence H. Mackay, 
President of. the Commercial Cable Co., etc.; Mr. Charles 
E. Reid, Secretary of the North Side Board of Trade; Mr. 
Luigi Solari, President of the Italian Chamber of Com¬ 
merce; Mr. Henry R. Towne, President of the Merchants 
Association ; Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Vice-President of the 
N. Y. Furniture Exchange; Mr. Willard U. Taylor, Presi¬ 
dent of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York; 
and the Mayors of the cities of Albany, Cohoes, Glens 
Falls, Hudson, Kingston, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rens¬ 
selaer, Troy, Watervliet and Yonkers. 

“By its Charter the number of Trustees is limited to 
100. There are now 51 Trustees, and the addition of the 
foregoing will make a total of 77, Your Committee has 
purposely refrained from nominating the full number at 
this time, in order that there might be opportunity to add 
at a future time persons who may yet be appointed on the 
Commission.” 


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The report was received and, there being no other 
nominations, the Secretary was directed to cast a single 
ballot in behalf of the Trustees for the nominees. The 
ballot having been cast as directed, the gentlemen recom¬ 
mended by the Nominating Committee were declared 
unanimously elected. 

Election of Vice-Preside?its 

The Nominating Committee also reported as follows : 

“Your Committee recommends for election as Vice- 
Presidents the following named 20 gentlemen who were 
Vice-Presidents of the Committee which this Commission 
supersedes. Mr. Carroll and Mr. Sackett refrain from 
nominating themselves but concur with Mr. Ridder as to 
all the other nominations: 

“Mr. Vincent Astor, Mr. August Belmont, Andrew 
Carnegie, LL.D., Gen. Howard Carroll, Hon. George B. 
Cortelyou, Mr. George J. Gould, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., 
Sc.D., Mr. Clarence H. Mackay, Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, 
Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Col. 
Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Selig- 
man, Mr. Theodore P. Shonts, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Mr. 
James Speyer, Mr. Henry R. Towne, Mr. Theodore N. 
Vail, and Mr. William Ziegler, Jr. 

“The Charter allows the Commission to have 25 Vice- 
Presidents. With Mr. Ridder, previously elected, the fore¬ 
going will make 21. Your committee refrains from nomi¬ 
nating the full number at this time for reasons similar to 
those in nominating Trustees.” 

The report was received, and there being no further 
nominations, the Secretary was directed to cast a single 
ballot for the nominees. The ballot having been cast as 
directed, the gentlemen recommended by the Nominating 
Committee were declared unanimously elected. 

Nominated for Appointment by the Mayor 

The Nominating Committee as reported as follows : 

“ Your Committee also recommends that the names of 
following named gentlemen be transmitted to His Honor 
the Mayor with the respectful request that he appoint them 
as members of the Commission: 


May 28, 1913 


3i 


“ Mr. Robert W. Boissevain, President of the Nether¬ 
lands Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Paul Bonynge, No. 26 
Exchange Place, lawyer, ex-President of the Crescent Ath¬ 
letic Club; Mr. Anthony N. Brady, 54 Wall Street, who 
was asked to become an incorporator but whose consent 
was not received before the bill of incorporation was sent 
to Albany; Mr. M. E. de Aguero, 52 Broadway, President 
of the Consolidated Stock Exchange; Mr. Henry Escher, 
Jr., 26 Exchange Place, Vice-Council of Switzerland; Prof. 
Henry P. Johnston, College of the City of New York, Pro¬ 
fessor of American History; Mr. E. E. Martin, Hudson 
and Harrison Streets, President of the New York Mercan¬ 
tile Exchange; Mr. J. P. Morgan, 23 Wall Street, to suc¬ 
ceed his father, the late Mr. J. P. Morgan; Mr. John B. 
Pine, 63 Wall Street, Secretary of Columbia University; 
Hon. James L. Wells, 141 Broadway, President of the 
Bronx League; and Mr. Francis M. Wilson, 17 Battery 
Place, Vice-Commodorc of Larchmont Yacht Club, Treasu¬ 
rer of Barber & Co., Inc., steamship owners.” 

The report was received and it was voted unanimously 
to recommend to the Mayor the gentlemen named in the 

report.* 

Appointment of Governors on the Commission Recommended 

The Secretary stated that in the preliminary work 
leading to the appointment of the Mayor’s Committee pre¬ 
ceding this Commission, the Governors of other States had 
expressed to the projectors of the celebration their interest 
in the undertaking. Hetherefore submitted to the Trustees 
the question as to whether the Governor of this State 
should be asked to invite the Governors of other States to 
become members ex-officio of this Commission. 

Mr. Phillips moved that the Governor be requested to 
appoint the Governors of other States as members ex-officio 
of this Commission. Carried. 

Duties of Committee on Seal Enlarged 

Mr. Ridder moved that the duties of the Committee 
on Official Seal appointed at the last meeting be enlarged 
so as to include those of recommending to the Trustees 

♦On June 6 the Mayor appointed the gentlemen named. 



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designs for the Official Medal and Official Badge; and that 
the President be authorized to add to the membership of 
the Committee in his discretion. Carried. 


Appointment of Other Committees 


The President stated that he would appoint the Chair¬ 
men of the Executive, Finance, Auditing, Flag and Poster, 
Plan and Scope, Upper Hudson and Lower Hudson Com¬ 
mittees which were necessary to put the Commission in 
working order and would appoint the members of the com¬ 
mittees in a few days. The work of thePlan and Scope Com¬ 
mittee was of immediate importance, and it was also desira¬ 
ble that the representatives of the communities along the 
Hudson River north of New York meet as soon as possible 
and begin to discuss plans of celebrating. As soon as the 
Plan and Scope Committee reported and a plan of celebra¬ 
tion was adopted, other committees would be appointed to 
carry out the details as in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 
when there were about 50 committees in all. Eventually, 
every member of the Commission would be assigned to a 
committee. 

Following are the committees subsequently appointed 
by the President: 


Executive Committee 
Chairman, Hon. Herman Ridder 


Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
George J. Gould 
Edward Hagaman Hall 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D.,Sc.D. 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
J. D. Rockfeller, Jr. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 


Theodore N. Vail 

Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 

Wm. Ziegler, Jr. 


James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 


May 28, 1913 


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AuditPig Committee 

Chairman , Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Hon, Arthur J. O’Keeffe Hon. William R. Willcox 


Finance Committee 

Chairman : Hon. Robert A. C. Smith 
Henry Clews A. B. Hepburn 

Hon. John D. Crimmins James B. Mabon 

Stuyvesant Fish Theodore P. Shonts 

Theodore N. Vail 

Flag and Poster Committee 

Chairman : Louis Annin Ames 

Henry R. Droune Charles R. Lamb 

Walter B. Hopping Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 


Pla?i a7id Scope Com7nittee 
Chairman : Gen. Howard Carroll 


Charles J. Austin 

Hon. William Berri 

Henry L. Bogert 

Elmer E. Brown,Ph.D.,LL.D. 

John H. Burroughs 

John B. Creighton 

Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 

Gen. George R. Dyer 

John H. Finley, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Benedict J. Greenhut 


Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 
William A. Johnston 
Cornelius J. Kolff 
A. E. McKinnon 
William A. Marble 
William A. Muschenheim 
Eben E. Olcott 
H. F. Osborn, Ph.D., LL.D. 
E. P. V. Ritter 
Edmund Wetmore 


Arthur Williams 


President 

President 

President 

President 

President 

President 

President 


Lower Hudson Co7mnittee 
Chairman : Mayor of Yonkers 

of Cold Spring President of Nyack 

of Croton on Hudson President of Ossining 


of Dobbs Ferry 
of Hastings 
of Haverstraw 
of Irvington 
of North Tarrytown 


President of Peekskill 
President of Piermont 
President of South Nyack 
President of Tarrytown 
President of Upper Nyack 


President of West Haverstraw 


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Minutes of Trustees 


Upper Hudson Committee 
Chairman : Mayor of Albany 


Mayor of Cohoes 
Mayor of Glens Falls 
Mayor of Hudson 
Mayor of Kingston 
Mayor of Newburgh 
Mayor of Poughkeepsie 
Mayor of Rensselaer 
Mayor of Troy 
Mayor of Watervliet 
President of Athens 
President of Castleton 
President of Catskill 
President of Corinth 
President of Cornwall 
President of Coxsackie 
President of Fishkill 


President of Fishkill Landing 
President of Fort Edward 
President of Green Island 
President of Hudson Falls 
President of Matteawan 
President of Mechanicville 
President of Red Hook 
President of Rhinebeck 
President of Saugerties 
President of Schuylerville 
President of South Glens Falls 
President of Stillwater 
President of Tivoli 
President of Victory Mills 
President of Wappingers Falls 
President of Waterford 


Nominating Committee 

At the request of Mr. Ridder to be relieved of service 
on the Nominating Committee, the President reconstructed 
the Committee as follows: 

Chairman : Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Gen. Howard Carroll Edward Hagaman Hall 


No Liabilities to be Incurred Without Authorization 

On motion of Mr. Phillips it was voted that no liability 
shall be incurred on behalf of the Commission by any 
member or Committee thereof without the approval of the 
Board of Trustees or Executive Committee. 

Contributions for Preliminary Expenses 

On motion of Mr. Ridder, it was voted that members 
of the Board of Trustees be requested to contribute $10 
each toward the preliminary expenses of the Commission, 
the checks to be made payable to J. P. Morgan & Co., 
Treasurer, and sent to the Secretary for deposit. Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 







June 25, 1913 


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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

June 25, 1913 

The third meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held at No. 
182 William Street, New York City, on Wednesday, June 
25th, 1913, at 2 P. M. 

Roll Call 

Present: Acting President, Hon. Herman Ridder, 

presiding in the absence abroad of the. President, Commo- 
modore Cornelius Vanderbilt; Mr. Henrv Lawrence 
Bogert, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Commodore 
Fred. B. Dalzell, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. Cornelius G. 
Kolff, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Col. Henry 
W. Sackett, and Mr. Clarence E. Spratt. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Louis 
Annin Ames, Mr. John Aspegren, Gen. Howard Carroll, 
Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Mr. James B. Mabon, Mr. William 
Allen Marble, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, and Commodore Cornelius Vander¬ 
bilt, and they were excused. 

Appointments by the Mayor 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter from 
Mr. Robert Adamson, Secretary to the Mayor, dated June 
6, 1913, communicating the appointment of the following 
named gentlemen as members of the Commission, as 
recommended on page 31; 


Minutes of Trustees 


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Mr. Robert W. Boissevain, Mr. Paul Bonynge, Mr. 
Anthony N. Brady, Mr. M. E. de Aguero, Mr. Henry 
Escher, Jr., Prof. Henry P. Johnston, Mr. E. E. Martin, 
Mr. J. P. Morgan, Mr. John B. Pine, Hon. James L. Wells, 
and Francis M. Wilson. 

The Secretary was directed to add the foregoing 
names to the roll of the Commission. 

Nominations Referred 

Various recommendations for appointment on the 
Commission and for election as Trustees were referred to 
the Nominating Committee, to report at the next meeting. 

Plan and Scope Committee 

In the absence of Gen. Carroll, Chairman of the Plan 
and Scope Committee, the Secretary reported that on June 
24th there had been a very full meeting of the Plan and 
Scope Committee when the subject of the nature and 
extent of the celebration was generally discussed. At 
that meeting it was decided to request every member of 
the Commission to send to the Secretary, as soon as possi¬ 
ble, his suggestions: 

First, as to the time when the celebration should 
begin and when it should end. 

Second,as to the features which the celebration should 
embrace; and 

Third, as to the place in the order of the celebration 
which the individual features should occupy. 

The suggestions thus far made in regard to the length 
of the celebration range all the way from only two weeks 
in October, 1914, to a period beginning in January and 
ending in December. 

The features thus far suggested include the following; 

Religions 

The inauguration of the celebration with a great and 
solemn gathering of all religious denominations, at such a 
place as Madison Square Garden, to acknowledge the 
blessings of three centuries of progress. 


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Educational 


A setting forth of the progress in commercial educa¬ 
tion in institutions of learning; the furnishing of features 
for public parades by faculties, students and graduates; a 
comparative exhibition of the progress of commercial edu¬ 
cation in American and foreign cities; the establishment 
of a permanent exchange of students and teachers of com¬ 
mercial subjects betwen New York and the leading centers 
of commercial education abroad; and the establishment of 
permanent offices of international information on these 
subjects. 

Appropriate exercises in the public schools, with prize 
essays on historical subjects. 

Educational symposiums under the lead of the higher 
institutions of learning. 

Historical 

Special exercises on March 27, 1914, the 300th anni- 
verrary of the granting of the first general charter by the 
States General of the United Netherlands for trading to 
New Netherland; and on October 11, 1914, the 300th anni¬ 
versary of the granting of the first specific charter for the 
same purpose. 

General historical exhibitions and meetings by muse¬ 
ums, historical societies and patriotic societies. 

Commercial 

The holding in New York City of exhibitions of the 
natural products and manufactures of other States of the 
Union. 

An exhibition—similar to “Old London Streets” 
which was on Broadway near Astor Place some years ago 
—by business houses 100 years or more old, reproducing 
old costumes, customs and styles and illustrating the 
progress in business methods. 

Panama Canal Opening 

Ceremonies on land and water in recognition of the 
completion of the Panama Canal in 1914. 

War and Peace 

The mobilization of the United States Atlantic Fleet 
at New York in October. 


Minutes of Trustees 




Land parade of military and naval forces. 

The inclusion of the Municipal Fourth of July cele¬ 
bration of 1914 in the Commission’s general scheme. 

Ceremonies commemorating the active building of 
fortifications in and around New York City in 1814. 

Ceremonies commemorating the completion of 100 
years of unbroken peace between English speaking peoples. 

Parades and Pageants 

Street parades illustrating civic and commercial prog¬ 
ress. 

Day and evening pageants of a similar nature— 
pageants, as distinguished from parades, being open-air 
performances in a fixed place and not spectacles moving 
through the streets. 

A Jubilee of Nations, consisting of the assignment of 
various localities to various nationalities in the city where 
they can hold national festivities. 

Musical 

An international musical congress, and a series of 
great musical festivals—popular concerts of folk-song and 
music and music festivals by trained vocal and instru¬ 
mental organizations. 


Special Weeks 

Special Weeks devoted to Governors, Mayors, Auto¬ 
mobiles, Mothers and Children, Aviation, Aquatic Sports, 
Athletics, etc. 


Hicdson Valley 

Local celebrations by all the committees in the Hud¬ 
son Valley north of New York. 

A meric a n Republics 

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An international conference of American Republics. 

Permanent Monument 

The whole celebration to look forward to leaving per¬ 
manent beneficial results and particularly some permanent 
monumental building or other public work. 


June 25, 1913. (lg 

It was stated that no action had been taken by the 
Plan and Scope Committee on any of these suggestions. 
The Committee will consider these and all other sugges¬ 
tions carefully and will communicate its recommendations 
to the Board of Trustees for action with the understand¬ 
ing that the plan and scope of th A celebration are to be 
determined by the Board of Trustees. 

Dutch Colors in 1614 

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The Secretary reported that at the request of the 
Chairman of the Flag and Poster Committee he had 
written to the Keeper of the Royal Archives at The Hague, 
asking what the colors of the flag of the Netherlands were 
in 1614, and had received the following reply: 

The Hague, June 5 th, 1913. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, Esq., 

Secretary of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, New York. 

Dear Sir: 

In reply to your letter of the 23rd May I have the honor 
to tell you, that we may admit, as the result of the latest 
researches on that subject, that the flag of the United 
Netherlands about 1614 was composed of the colors 
orange, white and blue. 

The three colors were placed in such manner that the 
orange breadth was at the top of the staff, in the same 
way as our present flag red, white and blue. 

Yours faithfully, 

R. Truin, 

Keeper of the Records. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


























































































































































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Official Minutes 

OF 


TheN ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 

July 23, August 27, Sept. 24, 1913 
including report of 
Plan and Scope Committee 




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The New York 

Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


President 

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Treasurer 


Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 15 Broad St., New York 


Secretary 


Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D., 154 Nassau St., New York 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon, 154 Nassau St., New York 


Members of the Commission 

(Revised to Sept. 24, 1913. Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

Hon. Robert Adamson Newton D. Ailing 

John Adikes B. Altman 




Members of the Commission 


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Louis Annin Ames 
John Aspegren 
Vincent As tor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Union N. Bet hell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bomiell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
E. B. Boynton 
Anthony N. Brady 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. I)., LL. D. 
James W. Brown 
John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

William A. Camp 
James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie , LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 


John Carstensen 
E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
Henry Clews 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Co?iti 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

John B. Creighton 

Hon. John D. Crimmins 

Hon. George Cromwell 

William N. Cromwell 

Warren Cruikshank 

Col. Michael J. Cummings 

Andrew Cuneo 

Charles F. Daly 

Com. Fred , B. Dalzell 

M. E de Aguero 

John D. DeFriest 

William D. Dickey 

Charles H. Ditson 

John Dowd 

Henry Russell Drowne 

Hon. Michael J. Drummond 

Gen. George R. Dyer 

John C. Eames 

Edward Earl 

George L. Egbert 

George Ehret 

Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 



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Members of the Commission 


Bert hold Flesch , AT. D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 

W. C. Freeman 

Charles H. Fuller 

Michael Furst 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. Gould 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

T. Greidanus 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

Dr. William H. Hale 

Edward Hagaman Hall L. H.D. 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Ernest Harvier 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 
Walter B. Hopping 
G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
A. E. Johnson 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Cornelius G. KolJJ 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 


Hans Lagerlof 

Charles R. Lamb 

Leopold L. Langrock 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D„ LL.D. 

William J. Lee 

Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 

W. V. Lifsey 

Stephen Lounsbery 

James B. AT a bon 

Clarence H. Mackay 

A. E. MacKinnon 

Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 

William A. Marble 

E. E. Martin 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
S. C. Mead 
S. A. Miles 
Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 
L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
J. P. Morgan 
Henry Morgenthau 
Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 
George W. Neville 
Hon. AT organ J. O'Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Oliphant 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph. D.,LL. D. 

Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 


Members of the Commission 


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John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. William A. Prendergast 

Charles W. Price 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 

H. H. Raymond 

Fred A. Reed 

William C. Reick 

Charles E. Reid 

Rev. Christian F. Reisner 

Hon . Herman Ridder 

Edward P. V. Ritter 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlessinger 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 


Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Theodore N. Vail 
Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Cliff 
Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
F. A. Vanderlip 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Judson G. Wall 
John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Hon. James L. Wells 
Edmund Wetmore 
Warren Whitney 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
Hon. William R. Willcox 
Arthur Williams 
T. S. Williams 
Francis M. Wilson 
Louis Windmuller 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Wool worth 
James C. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 

Albany . Hon Ja7nes B. McEwan 

Amsterdam.Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn.Hon. Thomas H. O’Neill 

Beacon.Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton.Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua.Hon. Peter P. Turner 









Members of the Commission 



Cohoes . 

Corning. 

Cortlandt. 

Dunkirk. 

Elmira. 

Fulton. 

Geneva . 

Glens Falls . 

Gloversville. 

Hornell. 

Hudson . 

Ithaca. 

Jamestown. 

Johnstown. 

Kingston . 

Lackawanna. 

Little Falls. 

Lockport. 

Middletown. 

Mount Vernon... 

Newburgh . 

New Rochelle.... 

New York. 

Niagara Falls .... 
North Tonawanda 
Ogdensburgh .... 

Olean . 

Oneida. 

Oneonta. 

Oswego. 

Plattsburgh. 

Port Jervis. 

Poughkeepsie . 

Rensselaer . 

Rochester. 

Rome. 

Schenectady. 

Syracuse. 

Tonawanda. 

Troy . 

Utica. 

Watertown. 


.Hon. John F. Scott 
.Hon. Frederick A. Ellison 
.Hon. Walter H. Angell 
.Hon. Harry B. Lyon 
.Hon. Daniel Sheehan 
.Hon. John E. Boland 
.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 
.Hon. W. Irving Gripping 
.Hon. Alden L. Henry 
.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 
.Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 
.Hon. John Reamer 
.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 
. Hon. Abraham Harrison 
.Hon. Roscoe Irwin 
.Hon. Robert H. Reed 
.Hon. Frank H. Shall 
.Hon. George H. Brock 
.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 
.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 
. Hon. John B.'Corwin 
.Hon. Frederick H. Waldorf 
. Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 
_Hon. William Laughlin 
.Hon. John A. Rafter 
.Hon. Charles D. Hoard 
.Hon. Peter C. Foley 
.Hon. Otto Pfaff 
.Hon. Frank D. Blodgett 
.David D. Lang 
.Hon. W. H. Goff 
.Hon. Wm. H. Nearpass 
.Hon. William H. Frank 
. Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 
.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 
.Hon. Stewart E. Townsend 
.Hon. George R. Lunn 
.Hon. Edward Schoeneck 
.Hon. Charles Zuckmaier 
.Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 
.Hon. Frank J. Baker 
.Hon. Francis M. Hugo 















































Members of the Commission 


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Watervliet . Hon. Edwin Joslin 

Yonkers . Hon. Jaynes T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton. 

Catskill. 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth. 

Cornwall. 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson .. 

Dobbs Ferry. 

Fishkill.. 

Fort Edward. 

Green Island. 

Hastings*on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Mechanicville. 

North Tarrytown 

Nyack. 

Ossining. 

Peekskill.. 

Piermont. 

Red Hook .. \ . 

Rhinebeck. 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls ... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills. 

Wappingers Falls.... 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw ... 


Hon. D. W. Travis 
Hon. Christian Peters 
Hon. Willis A. Haines 
Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
Hon. J. Finley Work 
Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. William A. Camfield 

Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William [S. Massoneau 
Hon, Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 
Hon. R. S. Sherman 
Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 

Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 









































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Committees of the Commission 


Committees 

Executive Committee 


Chairman, Hon. 
Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
George J. Gould 
Edward Hagaman Hall 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D.,Sc.D. 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Herman Ridder 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
J. D. Rockfeller, Jr. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett 

Jacob H. Schiff 

Isaac N. Seligman 

Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 

Hon. R. A. C. Smith 

James Speyer 

Henry R. Towne 

Theodore N. Vail 

Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 

Wm. Ziegler, Jr. 


Auditing Committee 

Chairman , Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Hon, Arthur J. O’Keeffe Hon. William R. Willcox 


Finance Committee 

Chairman : Hon. Robert A. C. Smith 
Henry Clews Hon. A. B. Hepburn 

Hon. John D. Crimmins James B. Mabon 

Stuyvesant Fish Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 

Theodore N. Vail 


Flag and Poster Committee 

Chairman : Louis Annin Ames 

Henry R. Drowne Charles R. Lamb 

Walter B. Hopping Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 

Plan and Scope Committee 

Chairman : Gen. Howard Carroll 
Vice Chairman : Hon. William Berri 


Charles J. Austin 

Henry L. Bogert 

Elmer E. Brown,Ph.D.,LL.D. 

John H. Burroughs 

John B. Creighton 

Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 

Gen. George R. Dyer 

John H. Finley, Ph.D.,LL.D. 

Prof. Henry T, Fleck 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 


William A. Johnston 
Cornelius J. Kolff 
A. E. McKinnon 
William A. Marble 
William C. Muschenheim 
Eben E. Olcott 
H. F. Osborn, Ph.D., LL.D. 
E. P. V. Ritter 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Edmund Wetmore 
Arthur Williams 


Committees of the Commission 


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President 

President 

President 

President 

President 

President 

President 


Lower Hudson Committee 

Chairman: Mayor of Yonkers 

of Cold Spring President of Nyack 

of Croton on Hudson President of Ossining 


of Dobbs Ferry 
of Hastings 
of Haverstraw 
of Irvington 
of North Tarrytown 


President of Peekskill 
President of Piermont 
President of South Nyack 
President of Tarrytown 
President of Upper Nyack 


President of West Haverstraw 


Nominating Committee 

Chairman : Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Gen. Howard Carroll Edward Hagaman Hall 

Upper Hudson Committee 

Chairman: Mayor of Albany 


Mayor of Beacon 
Mayor of Cohoes 
Mayor of Glens Falls 
Mayor of Hudson 
Mayor of Kingston 
Mayor of Newburgh 
Mayor of Poughkeepsie 
Mayor of Rensselaer 
Mayor of Troy 
Mayor of Watervliet 
President of Athens 
President of Castleton 
President of Catskill 
President of Corinth 
President of Cornwall 
President of Coxsackie 


President of Fishkill 
President of Fort Edward 
President of Green Island 
President of Hudson Falls 
President of Mechanicville 
President of Red Hook 
President of Rhinebeck 
President of Saugerties 
President of Schuylerville 
President of South Glens Falls 
President of Stillwater 
President of Tivoli 
President of Victory Mills 
President of Wappingers Falls 
President of Waterford 


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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

July 23, 1913 


Pursuant to the by-laws, a meeting of the Trustees of 
the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was 
called to be held in the library of the Acting President, 
Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William Street, New 
York City, on Wednesday, July 23, 1913, at 2 p. m. 

On account of the summer absence of many Trustees it 
was stated in the notice of the meeting that in the event of 
there being no quorum present, the meeting would be ad¬ 
journed without the transaction of business. 

There were present the Acting President, Hon. Herman 
Ridder; the Assistant Secretary, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon ; 
and Mr. W. A. Johnston. 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Clarkson 
Cowl, Dr. John H. Finley, Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. 
Franklin W. Hooper, Dr. George F. Kunz, Col. Henry W. 
Sackett, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Robert A. C. Smith, Commodore 
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mr. Arthur Williams. 

There being no quorum present, the meeting adjourned 
without the transaction of any business. 

A. E. MacKinnon, 

Assistant Secretary. 


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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

August 27, 1913 

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees of the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was 
called, pursuant to the by-laws, to be held in the library of 
the Acting President, Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 
William Street, New York City, on Wednesday, August 27, 
1913, at 2 p. m. 

In order not to inconvenience members of the Board 
unnecessarily it was intimated in the notice of the meeting 
that the continued absence of Trustees on account of sum¬ 
mer vacations would make a quorum improbable, in which 
event no business would be transacted. 

There were present the Acting President, Hon. Herman 
Ridder, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall and Mr. Hans 
Lagerlof. 

Regrets for absence were received from Chancellor 
Elmer Elsworth Brown, Hon. Thomas W. Churchill, Dr. 
John H. Finley, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Dr. Henry 
Fairfield Osborn, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Charles E. 
Reid, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. 
Jacob H. Schiff, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Mr. Theodore N. 
Vail, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mr. Arthur 
Williams. 

No quorum being present, the meeting adjourned 
without transacting any business. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

September 24, 1913 

The sixth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Presiding Vice-President, the Hon. Herman 
Ridder, at No. 182 William Street, New York City, on 
Wednesday, September 24, 1913, at 2 o’clock p.m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: The Presiding Vice-President, Hon. Herman 
Ridder, presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Com¬ 
modore Fred. B. Dalzell, Dr. Berthold Flesch, Mr. Charles 
H. Fuller, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Ernest Har- 
vier, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. William A. Johnston, 
Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. A. E. 
MacKinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Tay¬ 
lor Phillips, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, and Mr. Charles Steck- 
ler of the Board of Trustees; and Mr. M. E. de Aguero, 
a member of the Commission, and Mr. A. H. Stoddard. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Dr. Elmer E. 
Brown, Mr. Clarkson Cowl, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Bene¬ 
dict J. Greenhut, Mr. James B. Mabon, Mr. Eben E. 
Olcott, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. 
Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. R. A. C. 
Smith, Mr. James Speyer and Commodore Cornelius 
Vanderbilt, and they were excused. 

Death of Mayor Gaynor Announced 

The Acting President asked the Trustees to rise while 
he announced with great sorrow the death of the Hon. 
William J. Gaynor, Mayor of New York. The Secretary 
was requested to convey to the late Mayor’s family the 


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sincere sympathy of this Commission, and to make a 
suitable mention of his death in the Minutes of this 
meeting. 

Mayor Gaynor was born at Whitestown, near Utica, N. 
Y,, in 1851, and after receiving an education in the Whites¬ 
town Seminary and in Boston, came to Brooklyn and 
worked on Brooklyn and New York newspapers while study¬ 
ing law. One of the earliest public offices which he held was 
that of Police Commissioner inFlatbush. In 1890 he became 
Judge Advocate on the staff of Gen. McLeer, N. G. N. Y., 
and was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of New York 
for the terms of 1893-1907 and 1907-1921. He resigned 
from the bench, however, to accept his election as Mayor 
of New York, which office he assumed January 1, 1910. 
At various times he declined nominations for the offices of 
Governor, Judge of the Court of Appeals and Mayor of 
Brooklyn. From his appearance as a public figure in his 
successful fight against election and other frauds in Brook¬ 
lyn to the time of his death, his career was characterized 
by independent judgment, strong convictions, moral and 
physical courage and devotion to public interests. He 

had a philosophical cast of mind, and his letters and pub- 

\ 

lie utterances had a marked individuality. On August 9, 
1910, while on board the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der 
Grosse about to start for Europe, he was shot by a dis¬ 
charged employee of the city who was afterwards adjudged 
to be insane.* Not only did the Mayor bear the shock of 
the assault with extraordinary bravery, but after he rose 
from his sick bed he courageously resumed his public 
duties and continued them in spite of the presence of the 
bullet in his neck. On September 3, 1913, he received a 
renomination for the mayoralty by popular acclamation on 
the City Hall steps, and on the following day, accompanied 
by his son Rufus, sailed for Europe on the steamship 
Baltic for a few weeks rest. On September 10, while still 
at sea, he died suddenly of heart failure. His funeral in 
New York on September 22 was the occasion of one of the 

* James Gallagher, the assailant, died in the New Jersey Insane 
Hospital February 3, 1913. 



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most remarkable popular tributes of respect that has at¬ 
tended the death of any public official of this City. Mayor 
Gaynor appointed in December last the original citizens 
committee which afterward became incorporated as this 
Commission and by virtue of the act of incorporation was 
a member ex-officio of the Commission. His death, there¬ 
fore, is a great loss, not only to the community at large, 
but also to this Commission in whose objects he had a 
deep and sympathetic interest. 


Minutes Approved 

The Minutes of the Trustees meetings held on May 14, 
May 28 and June 25, 1913, having been printed and sent to 
all the members of the Commission, were approved as 
printed. 

Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & 
Co., the Secretary reported that in response to the resolu¬ 
tion adopted by the Trustees on May 28 last (page 34) 
contributions of $10 each had been received from forty- 
three Trustees and one contribution of $50 from T. N. 
Vail. There had been no disbursements and the amount 
in the treasury was $480. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, sub¬ 
ject to examination and approval by the Auditing Com¬ 
mittee: 


E. H. Hall, disbursements for stenographer, postage, mimeo¬ 
graphing, telephone, messenger and other expenses since 

February 1, 1913.. 

Polhemus Printing Co.; printing and stationery. 

E. Steed, mimeographing . 


$ 174-57 

127.56 

1.40 


$ 303.53 

Changes in Ex-Officio Membership 

The Secretary reported that on July 1, 1913, the 
villages of Fishkill Landing and Matteawan had been 
abolished by law and the City of Beacon created in their 






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» 

stead. By this change, the Hon. Benjamin Hammond, 
President of the Village of Fishkill Landing, ceased to be 
a member ex officio of the Commission, while the Hon. J. 
A. Frost, President of the Village of Matteawan, continued 
a member ex-officio as Mayor of Beacon. 

He also reported that the Hen. Ardolph L. Kline, 
President of the Board of Aldermen, had become Mayor 
of New York in place of the Hon. William J. Gaynor, 
deceased, and therefore succeeded the latter as a member 
ex-officio of the Commission. 

Appointment by the Mayor 

The Secretary reported that on July 23, Mayor Gaynor 
appointed Mr. Charles W. Price, of No. 13 Park Row, a 
member of the Commission. 

Changes in Plan and Scope Committee 

The Acting President announced that he had desig¬ 
nated the Hon. William Berri as Vice-Chairman of the 
Plan and Scope Committee, and had added to that Com¬ 
mittee Prof. Henry T. Fleck and Hon. James E. Sullivan. 

Report of the Plan and Scope Committee 

Gen. Carroll, Chairman of the Plan and Scope Com¬ 
mittee, presented the report of that Committee. In so 
doing, he stated that the Committee had received a great 
many suggestions and after carefully considering them 
had eliminated many of them, and presented to the Trus¬ 
tees those which appeared to be worthy of favorable con¬ 
sideration. The Committee did not necessarily advocate 
the program as a whole, although there was nothing in it 
which was not commendable if it met with the favor of 
the Trustees; and there was nothing in it which did not 
seem to be feasible. It was a general outline of a possible 
plan of Celebration which was submitted for approval or 
amendment by the Trustees as in their judgment should 
seem best. The report is as follows : 


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To the Board of Trustees of the New York Commer¬ 
cial Tercentenary Commission : 

Your Plan and Scope Committee, having considered 
the various recommendations made for the celebration in 
1914 of the commercial tercentenary of New York, respect¬ 
fully recommends for your consideration the following gen¬ 
eral program. With one or two exceptions, the precise 
dates of the various features of the program are not fixed, 
it being the aim of your Committee to present here the 
general outlines for a celebration and, if they meet with 
your approval, to perfect the details afterward. It is ex¬ 
pected that the plans herewith suggested will be amended 
and improved from time to time as the result of valuable 
suggestions yet to be made and as the development of one 
detail suggests or necessitates another. 

In the comparison which will be naturally made with 
the Hudson-Fulton celebration, which took place in New 
York City and along the Hudson River from September 26 
to October 11, 1909, it will be noticed that the present pro¬ 
gram differs from that of 1909 in two notable respects—it 
is more commercial and it is longer. 

The Hudson-Fulton celebration sprang entirely from 
historical sentiment, and it was a purely historical com¬ 
memoration from which specialized commercial features 
were studiously excluded. In that celebration commerce 
entered only in a general and historical way, as suggested 
by the voyage of Hudson and the invention of Fulton. 

The proposed celebration in 1914, on the other hand, 
springs primarily from commercial ideas. It was sug¬ 
gested by commercial bodies, and it will commemorate 
particularly the development of trade and commerce. 
Therefore this commemoration, while it cannot fail to enlist 
historical, artistic and educational interest, has much of the 
inspiration that has led to the commercial expositions with 
which notable historical events and anniversaries have been 
commemorated in the past. 

The length of the proposed program for 1914, covering 
in one way or another the period from March 27 (the 300th 
anniversary of the granting of the first general charter by 
the States General of the United Netherlands for trading 
to this country) to October 11 (the 300th anniversary of the 
granting of the first special charter for the same purpose), 
is largely the result of what has been stated above. It 
does not seem practicable to make an adequate and satis¬ 
factory representation of the commercial development of 
New York and of the country at large which has grown 


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from that of New York in any short period. Furthermore, 
in the preliminary meetings of the general committee on 
the celebration, there developed on the part of the repre¬ 
sentatives of large commercial houses a considerable oppo¬ 
sition to a short celebration which would congest the city 
with a transient holiday crowd and which would interrupt 
business rather than promote it. The representatives of 
these business interests, however, viewed with favora longer 
and more evenly attractive series of events which would 
tend to draw people to town and leave them sufficient con¬ 
trol of their time for shopping and business purposes. 

Therefore, while the proposed program has been ar¬ 
ranged with a view to a brilliant climax, it has been framed 
upon a plan which, it is believed, will permit of an extended 
period for commercial exhibitions without becoming bur¬ 
densome to the community. 

We recommend that upon Friday, March 27, 1914, the 
first of the anniversaries before mentioned, the celebration 
be begun by a great universal religious service of praise and 
thanksgiving for the blessings of three centuries of prog¬ 
ress, this service to be participated in by the people of all 
creeds, and to be held in the day time in Madison Square 
Garden or other commodious auditorium. In the evening 
we suggest holding, in some place like Carnegie Hall, a 
more distinctively historical meeting , the chief feature of 
which shall be an historical oration by a man of national 
reputation. If preferred, the historical meeting may be 
held on the following day or evening. 

The foregoing meetings will sound the keynote of the 
celebration, afford an opportunity to acquaint the public 
with the plans for later events and serve to stimulate popu¬ 
lar participation in them. 

It is proposed that the following months of April and 
May be devoted to various forms of commemoration in both 
the elementary and higher institutions of learning. On days to 
be determined by the respective educational authorities it 
is recommended that there be commemorative exercises in 
the public schools, with prize essays and orations and illus¬ 
trated lectures for adults under the auspices of the Board 
of Education; educational symposiums by our universi¬ 
ties, to which the great teachers of the world could be in¬ 
vited ; the holding of a comparative exhibition of the prog¬ 
ress of commercial education in American and foreign 
cities ; the establishment of a permanent exchange of stu¬ 
dents and teachers of commercial subjects between New 
York and the leading centers of commercial education 
abroad ; and the establishment of permanent offices of in- 


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ternational information on these subjects. It is possible 
that at this time, or later in the year, the opening of the 
new College of Administration and Commerce may be 
made a feature of the celebration. 

These exercises in the schools, colleges and universities 
will serve further to lay the foundation for an intelligent 
appreciation of the meaning of the Celebration. 

Beginning in the month of June and continuing through 
July and August, it is proposed to hold a series of exhibi¬ 
tions of the material resources of the various States of the Union. 
These exhibitions would be held with the official counten¬ 
ance of this Commission and under certain regulations 
prescribed by it, but would be conducted by a responsible 
company organized for that purpose and without any con¬ 
siderable expense, if any, to the Commission. Your Com¬ 
mittee is advised that many of the States, through repre¬ 
sentative commercial bodies, have already expressed their 
readiness to participate in such a series of exhibitions at 
their own expense. It would probably be necessary to 
hold these exhibitions in either the Grand Central Palace 
or Madison Square Garden. There would be four or more 
exhibitions, each representing a group of States, such as 
the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western States, and 
each lasting about two weeks, with an interval of about a 
week after each for a change of exhibits. The opening of 
each sectional exhibition would be signalized by an appro¬ 
priate public meeting participated in by the leading repre¬ 
sentatives of the section exhibiting. The recommendation 
of your Committee for the holding of these exhibitions is 
subject to the condition that arrangements entirely satis¬ 
factory to the Commission can be made. 

In a similar way, your Committee recommends tenta¬ 
tively the holding of an exhibition of business progress on 
the plan of “ Old London Streets,” illustrating the develop¬ 
ment of the various branches of business of New York 
City, provided arrangements satisfactory to the Commission 
can be made. 

It is recommended also that during the summer athletic 
eve?its be held in different parts of the City. 

Early in September it is proposed that the leading 
museums , historical societies and technical societies open exhibitions 
appropriate to the events commemorated, the exhibitions to 
remain open until the close of the Celebration about the 
middle of October. One week devoted to the opening of 
exhibitions on successive days by the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the New 
York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 


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Sciences, the New York Zoological Garden and the New 
York Botanical Garden would lend dignity and emphasis 
to this part ot the Celebration. 

In view of the important relation of the Panama Canal 
to the commerce of New York, as well as that of the world, 
it is recommended that the practical opening of the Canal 
in 1914 be celebrated by suitable exercises on land and 
water. As the most convenient time for a parade of mer¬ 
chant and passenger vessels and pleasure craft would be 
the second week of September, it is recommended that this 
observance be set for the week beginning Monday, Sep¬ 
tember 7. 

During this week could be held a Pan-American Con¬ 
gress at which the commercial relations of New York and 
the United States generally with the other nations of the 
two Americas could be discussed. 

During the same week of September 7 it is recom¬ 
mended that there be local celebrations in the Cities along the 
Erie Canal, beginning at Buffalo and proceeding eastward 
day by day to Rochester, Auburn, Syracuse, Utica, Schen¬ 
ectady and Troy. 

Another important anniversary occurring in 1914 which 
it would seem to be appropriate to recognize as a part of 
the Celebration is the Cente?inial of Peace between the English- 
speaking peoples. If no more convenient time can be found 
for this, it might be commemorated during the next week, 
beginning Monday, September 14. 

As a part of the Peace Jubilee, it is recommended that 
a Music Festival on a large scale be held, in which instru¬ 
mental and singing societies from this and foreign countries 
shall be invited to participate. 

During the week of September 14 it is recommended 
that there be local celebrations in the Cities of the Southern 
Tier of Counties of this State. 

Your Committee recommends that the week beginning 
Monday, September 21, be reserved mainly for local celebra¬ 
tions along the Hudson River , and that in recognition of the 
prior permanent settlement of Albany (Fort Orange) these 
celebrations begin at the upper end of the river and work 
southward instead of beginning at the lower end and going 
northward, as in the case of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. 

By the foregoing arrangement, it will be observed that 
the local celebrations throughout the State will have been 
concluded before the last two weeks of the Celebration in 
New York, leaving the Cities of the State free to partici¬ 
pate in the display of Cities in New York mentioned here¬ 
after. 


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If the foregoing general plan addresses itself to the 
approval of the Trustees, the Celebration would culminate 
in New York in the fortnight beginning on Monday, Sep¬ 
tember 28. 

During the week beginning on that date it is recom¬ 
mended that there be a Pageant of States, in which all the 
States of the Union shall be invited to participate, each 
State to furnish one or more floats representing its history 
or its resources. It is recommended that this Pageant be 
repeated on different days in each of the five boroughs of 
the city. 

With respect to these parades and those of the follow¬ 
ing week, it has been suggested that some if not most of 
them be held in the evening, when the people of the city 
generally are not employed and when business will not be 
interrupted. Asa consequence, the general illumination of 
the streets would begin this week. 

It is recommended that during this week there be local 
fiestas by different nationalities in various parts of the city. 

During the closing week, beginning Monday, October 
5, it is recommended that there be four street parades, 
namely (1) a merchants and manufacturers parade , in which 
the business houses of the city shall be represented ; (2) a?i 
automobile parade j (3) a Pageant of Cities , in which New 
York and the other cities of the State shall be represented 
by municipal department exhibits or otherwise ; and (4) a 
tarade of me?i from the ships of the United States and foreign 
navies and from the passenger and merchant ships in the 
harbor. 

It is recommended that the last parade above men¬ 
tioned be held on Saturday, October 10, in conjunction 
with the laying of the corner-stone or inauguration of a 
permanent memorial of some kind. It is suggested that the 
permanent memorial be not a monument or statue, but a 
public work, such as a ceremonial water gate, a permanent 
reviewing stand for public ceremonies, a stadium, a public 
building or institution such as an industrial museum, or a 
park or a bridge. 

Other features of this week would be a naval review on 
the water, an official banquet , entertainment for the sailors , 
etc. 

As October 1 i y the 300th anniversary of the granting 
of the first special charter for trading to New Netherland, 
falls on Sunday, it is recommended that the Celebration 
close on this day, as it will have begun on March 27, with 

religious observance . 


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61 

Several other features have been suggested upon which 
your Committee is not now prepared to make specific rec¬ 
ommendations. It has been suggested, for instance, that 
on certain convenient days during the Celebration the mil¬ 
itary events of 1814 in New York City be recalled. In that 
year, and particularly in the month of August, occurred 
some of the most active preparations that were made in 
New York City during the “War of 1812,” in the way of 
holding public meetings and building fortifications. In 
retracing the events of 1814, suitable observance might also 
be made of four notable engagements of the Revolutionary 
War in New YorK City—the Battle of Brooklyn, the Battle 
of Harlem, the Battle of Pell’s Point and the Battle of 
Fort Washington. It is believed that the patriotic and his¬ 
torical societies may be relied upon to make appropriate 
recognition of these events without special recommendation 
by your Committee. 

Another suggestion is the holding of a Three Centuries 
Costume Ball, restricted by invitation, to provide a social 
feature of the Celebration, and this is mentioned for the 
further consideration of the Trustees. 

All of which is respectfully submitted in behalf of the 
Committee. 

Howard Carroll, 

Edward Hagaman Hall, Chairman. 

Secretary. 


Senator Cantor moved that the report be received, 
printed and sent to all the members for consideration at 
the next meeting. 

The motion being seconded, the Acting President 
asked the Trustees to express their views on the report. 

President Hooper thought that the report was admir¬ 
able and comprehensive, and practicable if the members of 
the Commission could be put to work to carry it out and if 
the necessary resources were available. As to the length 
of the program, he thought that there was a decided educa¬ 
tional advantage in having the subject kept before the 
people as proposed. He suggested that the Museums be¬ 
gin their exhibitions in the spring instead of in September, 
and keep them open all summer. He especially commended 
the idea of leaving a lasting monument of the Celebration 
and recommended that it take the form of a great Indus- 


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trial Museum of the City and State of New York, as large 
as the one in Berlin. He referred to the rank of New York 
City as being, ne.xt to London, the largest manufacturing 
City in the world, and to its great industrial population 
which needed education and instruction, and he felt that 
there was a need here for an Industrial Museum on the plan 
of those in Germany, Switzerland and France. 

Mr. de Aguero asked the Chairman of the Plan and 
Scope Committee if it were practicable to sustain public 
interest in the Celebration during the period indicated and 
if the educational institutions would take part as outlined 
in the proposed plan. Being assured by Gen. Carroll that 
they had already manifested great interest in the Celebra¬ 
tion and had been prolific in suggestions, Mr. de Aguero 
said he thought the plan a very good one. While many 
New Yorkers went away during the summer, there were 
many strangers here whose interest would be held by the 
proposed exhibitions. He heartily endorsed President 
Hooper’s idea about an Industrial Museum. 

Mr. Phillips observed that the program covered a great 
length of time and said as a general thing he favored con¬ 
centrating a celebration like this in a short period. He 
feared it might be difficult to keep it going for nearly seven 
months, and he would rather have it begin in June and end 
in September. The events enumerated, however, were ad¬ 
mirable and if carried out would make a great Celebration. 
The best feature was the proposed Permanent Memorial. 
He greatly regretted that such a memorial was not left by 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. 

Mr. Spratt considered the program elaborate and com¬ 
plete. The proposition to leave a Permanent Memorial 
corrected a fault of all previous celebrations. It was a last¬ 
ing regret to him that the beautiful Dewey Arch had never 
materialized in permanent form. The Industrial Museum 
suggested by President Hooper would meet a want which 
had been felt for years. The lack of an adequate place in 
New York where the commercial progress of the City 
could be exhibited had long been a cause for criticism. As 
to sustaining interest in the Celebration, that seemed to be 


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63 


provided for by the variety of features proposed. Some 
would attract one class of people and some another class. 
The absence of New Yorkers in summer was not a reason 
for suspending the Celebration, for vast numbers of people 
came from the outside during the summer months. 

Mr. Kolff desired to read the report more deliberately 
before commenting upon its details. As mapped out, 
however, the program seemed to be comprehensive and to 
meet the requirements of a great Celebration. 

Senator Cantor said he did not share Mr. Phillips’ ap¬ 
prehensions about the length of the program. It was evi¬ 
dent that it must begin on March 27, the anniversary of 
the first general trading charter, and continue until October 
11, the anniversary of the first special charter, but he 
thought the report sounded more formidable than it really 
was. It was not necessary to keep up the interest of all 
the people all the time, but to keep alive the interest of all 
of them some of the time and of some of them through 
different periods all the time. Certain features would ap¬ 
peal to one group of people and other features to another 
group and so on till the closing weeks when the attention 
of all would be engaged in the culminating ceremonies. 
The educational bodies would have their features and the 
commercial bodies theirs; and much of the program, after 
it was initiated by the Commission, would be executed 
under the intelligent and sympathetic direction of persons 
and organizations outside of the Commission. He regard¬ 
ed it important to carry on one or another portion of the 
Celebration from March to October and to interest the 
great number of strangers who come to town during the 
summer, but it was not necessary to attempt to absorb 
general public attention all the while. He said the City 
owed a debt of gratitude to its successful merchants and 
that the Celebration afforded a way of acknowledging it. 
He was heartily in favor of the general proposition. 

Mr. Bogert said that in celebrating three centuries of 
commercial progress the people of New York would be 
celebrating themselves. Trade was continuous, and when 
outsiders came to New York they saw trade going on. If 


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the Commission put before the people the right kind of 
features, it could have as big a program as it wished, for 
it would engage popular interest. He regarded a great 
memorial as a fitting end of the Celebration. 

Commodore Dalzell said that he was a member of the 
Plan and Scope Committee and had been present at the 
meeting when the plan of the report was agreed on, 
and he did not think he could add anything on the sub¬ 
ject. Chancellor Brown had set the Committee right 
about the best time for the educational portions, and Mr. 
Stoddard had explained the practicability of the commer¬ 
cial exhibits; and he believed the program was a good one. 

Mr. Steckler said that to his mind the program was so 
full and complete that it did not admit of discussion. 

Mr. Muschenheim believed the proposed plan would 
work out all right and he would be sorry if it were not 
carried out continuously. He said that there were many 
persons in New York in July and August who did not 
come at any other time, and he believed that the commer¬ 
cial exhibits during that time would be very interesting. 

Mr. Johnston, while approving President Hooper’ssug- 
gestion for an Industrial Museum, advocated a permanent 
marble Grand Stand as the permanent memorial of the 
Celebration. He said that the City spent $150,000 a year 
in putting up and taking down temporary reviewing 
stands for public ceremonies and that it would be more 
economical and more dignified, while adding to the beauty 
of the City, to have a permanent structure for that purpose. 
He would call it the Court of Three Centuries and have 
upon it panels for the commemoration of great events and 
great men in the City’s history. With the general princi¬ 
ples of the proposed program he was in accord. 

Mr. Ames regarded the report as encyclopedic and 
believed that it could be carried out successfully. As to 
the proposed memorial, he approved of the Industrial 
Museum idea but also suggested the desirability of a Con¬ 
vention Hall. He said that there was not an auditorium 
in the City capable of holding the National Convention of 
either the Republican or the Democratic party, or any 


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other gathering of equal size, and he thought that a 
Memorial Convention Hall would be a fitting monument 
to the Celebration. 

Mr. MacKinnon approved the report, saying that it 
embodied ideas which he hadrecommended soon after the 
Commission was appointed. He believed that once begun, 
the distribution of work among different organizations 
would greatly simplify matters. 

Dr. Kunz advocated as the Permanent Memorial not 
simply an Industrial Museum or a Commercial Museum, 
but many museums. He said he had written a monograph 
not long ago advocating a Water Gate on the river front 
alongside of a Stadium accommodating 100,000 persons, 
and embracing a group of museums devoted to different 
purposes. He thought the successful men of the town 
could be appealed to for this purpose and would respond 
favorably, a man who had succeeded in one branch of busi¬ 
ness giving a museum of one kind and another who had 
succeeded in some other branch giving another, and so on. 
He would not center on any one thing. 

A letter from Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, expressing 
regret for absence, said that the American Museum of 
Natural History would co-operate as suggested in the plan 
of the Committee. In general, however, he thought the 
program too long to sustain interest. 

At the conclusion of the discussion, Mr. Cantor’s 
motion that the report be received, printed and sent to the 
members of the Commission and that it be considered at 
the next meeting of the Trustees, was carried. 

Mr. Spratt moved that the thanks of the Board be 
given to the Plan and Scope Committee for its able and 
complete report. Carried. 

Financial Matters 

Mr. Riddersaid that it would soon be necessary to con¬ 
sider financial matters. He was confident that ample funds 
could be obtained by means of appropriations by the State 
and City and by popular subscription. 


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Adjournment to October 8 

It was voted that when the meeting should adjourn, it 
should adjourn to meet on Wednesday, October 8, at 2 
o’clock p. m., and that the report of the Plan and Scope 
Committee should then be considered. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


Minutes of 


6 7 


Trustees Meeting 

October 8, 1913 

The seventh meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held pursuant 
to adjournment in the library of the Presiding Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William Street, 
New York City, on Wednesday, October 8, 1913, at 2 
o’clock p. M. 

Roll-Call 

Present : Gen. Howard Carroll, Vice-President, pre¬ 
siding ; Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, 
Mr. Clarkson Cowl, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. William A. 
Johnston, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
William C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. 
Edward P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. R. A. C. 
Smith, Mr. Charles E. Spratt and Mr. Arthur Williams (by 
Mr. A. E. Norman.) The Hon. Herman Ridder was pres¬ 
ent during the latter part of the meeting. 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard and Prof. Henry T. Fleck were 
present by request. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Louis 
Annin Ames, Mr. Vincent Astor, Hon. Thomas W. Churchill, 
Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Hon. 
W. Irving Griffing, Mr. Lucien Jouvaud, Dr. George F. 
Kunz, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. 
Charles E. Reid, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. James Speyer, 
Mr. Theodore N. Vail and Commodore Cornelius Vander¬ 
bilt, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The Minutes of July 23, August 27 and September 24, 
having been printed and sent to all the members of the 
Commission, were approved as printed. 


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Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
the Secretary reported that the total amount subscribed 
by members of the Board of Trustees was $490; that there 
had been no disbursements (the accounts approved at the 
last meeting amounting to $303.53 being in course of ex¬ 
amination by the Auditing Committee) and that the bal¬ 
ance on hand was $490. The report was received. 

Bill Approved for Payment 

A bill from Mr. A. E. MacKinnon for disbursements 
for stationery, typewriting, etc., amounting to $19.60 was 
approved for payment, subject to examination and appro¬ 
val by the Auditing Committee. 

Death, of Mr. Benjamin Altman 

The Vice-President presiding announced with great 
regret the death of Mr. Benjamin Altman, one of the orig¬ 
inal members of this Commission, which occurred on Tues¬ 
day, October 7; and it was voted that a suitable notice of 
the Commission’s loss be entered in the Minutes. 

Mr. Altman was one of the most distinguished mer¬ 
chants of New York City—distinguished not only as a suc¬ 
cessful merchant but also as a philanthropist and an art 
connoisseur. He was born in New York July 12, 1840, and 
his career therefore covered a period a little over 73 years. 
His father was a merchant before him, and in 1854 founded 
the great dry goods house nov r known as B. Altman & Co. 
After a public school education, the son entered the busi¬ 
ness with his father. After the father’s death, the firm was 
known for a number of years as Altman Bros., Benjamin 
then having associated with him his brother Morris, who 
died many years ago. In the earlier years of his manhood, 
he devoted his genius with extraordinary success to the 
building up of his business and exemplified the best ideals 
of mercantile life. In later years, with the business organ¬ 
ized and running upon the system developed by him, he 
gave much of his time to the indulgence of his artistic and 
intellectual tastes. He was unrivaled as a judge of porce¬ 
lains, and was a discriminating collector of paintings by 


October 8, 1913 69 

old masters and other objects of art. Although of a retir¬ 
ing disposition and shunning publicity, he had a warm hu¬ 
man sympathy which manifested itself in his constant con¬ 
cern for the welfare of his employes and in philanthropies 
which were known only to the beneficiaries and to his inti¬ 
mate friends*. In his death this Commission and the city 
at large have suffered a great loss. 

Resignation of Mr. William A. Marble 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. William A. Mar¬ 
ble, dated October 2, 1913, resigning as a member of th e . 
Board of Trustees on account ot the demands upon his 
time by his duties as President of the Merchants Associa¬ 
tion of New York. 

There was a unanimous feeling of reluctance to accept 
the resignation, and it was voted that the letter be laid on 
the table and that the Secretary be directed to communi¬ 
cate to Mr. Marble the earnest wish of the Board that he 
remain a member of it. 

Election of Trustees 

Col. Sackett, Chairman, presented the report of the 
Nominating Committee, recommending Hon. William Berri 
and Mr. J. R. Butler for election as members of the Board 
of Trustees. 

The recommendation was approved and Messrs. Berri 
and Butler were elected members of the Board. 

Nominated for Appointment by the Mayor 

The report of the Nominating Committee also recom¬ 
mended that the following named gentlemen be nominated 
to the Mayor of New York for appointment as members of 
the Commission : 


*Since the meeting of October 8, public announcement has been 
made of Mr. Altman’s will, in which he gives his art collection to the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art—the most munificent gift of its kind in 
the history of the city—and provides for extensive benefactions through 
the Altman Foundation. 



Minutes of Trustees 


70 

Hon. R. Ross Appleton, President of the Security Bank, 1 
East 14th Street. 

Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, 99 John Street. 

James Douglas, LL.D., 99 John Street. 

Hon. Benjamin A. Keily, Water Register of New York, 21 
Park Row. 

Mr. Alfred J. McGrath, Cashier of the International Bank, 
60 Wall Street. 

Hon. George W. Perkins, 71 Broadway. 

Mr. A. Silz, produce commission merchant, 416 West 14th 
Street. 

Mr. George C. Smith, capitalist, 30 Church Street. 

Mr. John R. Young, Manager of the Convention Bureau of 
the Merchants Association of New York, 233 Broad¬ 
way, and 

Mr. William J. Wollman, managing partner of J. S. Bache 
& Co., bankers and brokers, 42 Broadway. 

The recommendation was approved and the gentlemen 
named were nominated to the Mayor for appointment. 

Nominations Referred to Committee 
Dr. Hooper proposed Hon. A. Augustus Healy, Presi¬ 
dent of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 198 

Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, for membership in the Com¬ 
mission. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter proposed for election as members 
of the Board of Trustees the following named members of 
the Commission : Mr. Robert W. Boissevain, President of 
the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Robert 
Grier Cooke, President of the Fifth Avenue Association; 
Mr. M. E. de Aguero, President of the Consolidated Stock 
Exchange of New York ; Mr. E. E. Martin, President of the 
New York Mercantile Exchange; Mr. George W. Neville 
President of the New York Cotton Exchange ; and Mr. 
William S. Van Clief, President of the Staten Island Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce. 

All the nominations were referred to the Committee 
on Nominations. 

Discussion of Plan and Scope Report 
The Board then took up the special order of business, 
namely, the Report of the Plan and Scope Committee, 
which is printed on pages 56-61 of the Minutes. 


October 8, 1913 


7 i 


Mr. Cantor moved that the report be approved. The 
motion being seconded, the various recommendations were 
first discussed generally. 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Isaac N. Selig- 
man to Hon. Herman Ridder, dated October 7, in which 
he said : “ Your Plan and Scope Committee report covers 

the entire ground, intelligently and broadly. I think that 
as far as practicable we should make the commercial pro¬ 
gress of this City the cardinal feature, which will appeal 
powerfully to our community.” 

The Vice-President presiding laid before the Board a 
letter to him from the A. H. Stoddard Co., Inc., dated 500 
Fifth Avenue, New York, October 6, and signed by Mr. A. 
H. Stoddard, President, proposing to attend to the practi¬ 
cal management of the proposed commercial exhibition re¬ 
ferred to on page 58 of the Minutes. It proposed that the 
exhibitions to be held in the Grand Central Palace under 
the auspices and control of the Commission ; that the ex¬ 
hibits be judged by juries, the more meritorious to be 
recognized by medals and diplomas; that the A. H. Stod¬ 
dard Co., Inc., pay all expenses of organizing and opera¬ 
ting the exhibits and issue 50,000 free admission tickets to 
the States of each sectional exhibition ; that the Commis¬ 
sion formally invite the States of the Union to participate 
in the Celebration, the Commission to pay all expenses in 
connection with such invitations ; and that during the ex¬ 
hibitions, with the assistance of the Commission and the 
International Exposition Co., the A. H. Stoddard Co., Inc., 
arrange a series of entertainments for each exhibition, to 
which the President of the United States, the Governors of 
the States exhibiting and the Mayors of the Cities in those 
States should be invited. 

Col. Sackett asked for more specific details of the plan 
submitted by the Stoddard Co., saying that he thought 
that it might involve the Commission in responsibility for 
the corporate acts of the Company. He asked particularly 
what the financial scheme of the Stoddard Co. was, and 
what would be the relation of that corporation to this 
Commission. 


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Gen. Carroll, Mr. Phillips, Dr. Hooper and others also 
asked questions bearing on various phases of the subject. 

Mr. Stoddard’s replies were in general to the effect that 
the details had not yet been worked out, that the plan sub¬ 
mitted was only a general one, to be developed in detail 
according to the judgment of the Commission. 

Mr. Ritter moved that a Committee of three be ap¬ 
pointed to confer with Mr. Stoddard with a view to learning 
more particularly the details of the plan for the commercial 
exhibitions. 

The motion was carried and the Vice-President pre¬ 
siding appointed as such committee Mr. Ritter, Col. Sackett 
and Mr. Phillips. 

In connection with the opening religious services, Dr. 
Hooper recommended that the clergy of all denominations 
be requested to take notice of the opening of the Celebra¬ 
tion in their services on Sunday, March 29, 1914 ; and the 
recommendation was adopted. 

In discussing the street parades, Mr. Greenhut sug¬ 
gested that as far as possible the pageants be held at night. 
He said it was not good for the merchants of the City to 
have street pageants in the daytime, for such parades in¬ 
terfered seriously with business ; furthermore, hundreds of 
thousands of persons, wage-earners and business people, 
were unable to see the spectacles in the daytime, whereas 
they would be free at night to enjoy them. 

Mr. Cowl seconded this suggestion and it was approved 
by a general vote. 

While the subject of the permanent memorial was 
under discussion, Col. Sackett suggested the insertion of 
the words “ or memorials,” so that the plan of the Com¬ 
mission might include more than one permanent memorial. 
The recommendation was adopted. 

Dr. Hooper said that after talking with other members 
of the Commission he was strongly convinced that this 
Celebration offered an opportunity such as might not occur 
again in 25 or 50 )^ears for accomplishing some very great 
thing in the way of a permanent and beneficial result. In 
recommending the Industrial Museum as the permanent 


October 8, 1913 


73 


memorial he did not wish to be understood as excluding 
others. For instance, the City ought to have a ceremonial 
Watergate ; but he believed that if there could be only one 
permanent memorial, the Industrial Museum would be the 
most serviceable. 

On motion of Mr. Spratt, the Plan and Scope Com¬ 
mittee was requested to consider further and to present its 
recommendations concerning the suggestions contained in 
the first paragraph on page 61, relating to the centennial 
of events connected with the “ war of 1812’’ and in con¬ 
nection therewith, battles of the Revolutionary period in 
the City of New York. 

Prof. Fleck was invited to explain his suggestions for 
the Music Festival and did so. 

General Plan of Celebration Adopted 

The result of the action of the Board in the course of 
the consideration of the report of the Plan and Scope Com¬ 
mittee by paragraph was the approval of the following 
general plan of the Celebration : 

On Friday, March 27, 1914, a universal Religious 
Service of praise and thanksgiving. 

On the same date or on Saturday, March 28, a dis¬ 
tinctively Historical Meeting. 

On Sunday, March 29, recognition of the opening of 
the celebration, in the churches of all denominations. 

During April and May, commemorative observances in 
the elementary and higher institutions of learning. 

During June, July and August, a series of exhibitions 
of the material resources of the various States of the Union, 
subject to the condition that arrangements satisfactory to 
the Commission can be made. 

An exhibition illustrating the progress of various 
branches of business of New York City, subject to the con¬ 
dition that a satisfactory arrangement can be made. 

During the summer, athletic events. 

September 1 to October 11, exhibitions by the leading 
museums, historical societies and technical societies. 

During the week beginning Monday, September 7, 
(a) celebration of the practical opening of the Panama 
Canal ; (b) a Pan-American Congress for the discussion of 
the commercial relations of the American Republics ; (c) 
local celebrations in Cities along the Erie Canal. 


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During the week beginning Monday, September 14, 
(a) commemoration of the centennial of peace among 
English-speaking peoples ; (b) in connection with the fore¬ 
going a Music Festival ; (c) local celebrations in Cities in 
the southern part of the State. 

During the week beginning Monday, September 21, 
local celebrations in Cities along the Hudson River, pro¬ 
ceeding in order from Albany southward. 

During the week beginning Monday, September 28, 
(a) a Pageant of States, consisting of a street parade of 
floats, etc., repeated in each of the five boroughs of New 
York ; (b) general illumination of the streets at night ; (c) 
local fiestas by different nationalities in various parts of 
the City. 

During the week beginning Monday, October 5, (a) a 
Merchants and Manufacturers Parade ; (b) an Automobile 
Parade ; (c) a Pageant of Cities, in which New York and 
other Cities of the State shall be represented by municipal 
department exhibits or otherwise ; (d) a parade of men 
from naval, passenger and merchant vessels; (e) a Naval 
Review on the river ; (f) official banquet ; (g) entertain¬ 
ment of sailors on land. 

On Saturday, October 10, in connection with the parade 
of men from the ships, the inauguration or dedication of 
a permanent memorial or memorials. 

On Sunday, October n, closing religious observance. 

Municipal Reviewing Stands 

General Carroll inquired whether it would not be prac¬ 
ticable to have erected for the parades of the last two 
weeks of the Celebration, a number of Official Public Re¬ 
viewing Stands, to which a standard admission fee should 
be charged, and the proceeds of which should go toward 
the objects of the Celebration. 

After brief discussion the subject was referred to the 
appropriate committee to be appointed subsequently. 

Committees 

Gen. Carroll stated that the general plan of the Cele¬ 
bration having been adopted, it would now be practicable 
for the President of the Commission to appoint the work¬ 
ing Committees, and that the Committees would undoubt¬ 
edly be appointed in the near future. 


October 8, 1913 


75 


Financial Matters 

Mr. Ritter urged the necessity of immediate steps for 
the securing of funds, and Gen. Carroll said that the 
Finance Committee would probably take the matter up 

immediately after the November election. 

The Board then adjourned until the next regular date 

of meeting, namel}'- Wednesday, October 22, 1913. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary 



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77 

Official Minutes 

OF 


The N ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary C 


ommission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
October 22 , 1913 




78 


The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


President 

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 


Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 


Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 




79 


Members of 

(Revised to Oct. 31, 1913. 

Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Newton D. Ailing 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John Asjegren 
Vincent As tor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Union N. Bet hell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
E. B. Boynton 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
C. C Brown 
Elmer E. Brown , Ph. D. } LL. D. 
James W. Brown 
John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 
Hon. William M. Calder 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 


the Commission 

Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

William A. Camp 
James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 
E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
Henry Clews, Ph. D., LL. D. 
Edward K. Cone 
Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 
Hugh Connolly 
Cesare Conti 
John C. Cook 
Robert Grier Cooke 
P. H. Coombs 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Clarkson Cowl 
Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 
John B. Creighton 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
William N. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Charles F. Daly 
Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 
M. E. de Aguero 
Albert de Cernea 
John D. DeFriest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
James Douglas, LL. D. 

John Dowd 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 


8o 


Members of the Commission 


Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Samuel W. Fairchild 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
Bert hold Flesch, M. D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 

W. C. Freeman 

Charles H. Fuller 

Michael Furst 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. Gould 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

T. Greidanus 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

Dr. William H. Hale 

Edward Hagaman Hall L. H.D. 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Ernest Harvier 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 


Walter B. Hopping 
Hon. William B. Howland 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
A. E. Johnson 

Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
‘ William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Hon. Benjamin A. Keilv 
Cornelius G. Kolff 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Hans Lagerlof 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 
William J. Lee 

H. M. Leijziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 

W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 
Ja7nes B. Mabon 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
William A. Marble 
Edwin E. Martin 
Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Alfred J. McGrath 
S. C. Mead 
S. A. Miles 
Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 
L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
J. Pier Pont Morgan 
Henry Morgenthau 
Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 


Members of the Commission 


81 


William A. Nash 
George W. Neville 
Hon, Morgan J. O'Brief i 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Oliphant 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph. D.,LL. D. 
Eugene H. Outerbridge 
Col. Willis S. Paine 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
Hon. George W. Perkins 
Ralph Peters 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Lewis E. Pierson 
John B. Pine 
W. H. Pleasants 
Hon. William A. Prendergast 
Charles W. Price 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
H. H. Raymond 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reick 
Charles E. Reid 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schijf 
Leo Schlessinger 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

Hon. John A. Sleicher 
George Carson Smith 


Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 
Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Com. Co?nelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Hon. Judson G. Wall 
Hon. John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Whitney Warren 
Hon. James L. Wells 
Edmund Wetmore 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
Hon. William R. Willcox 
Arthur Williams 
T. S. Williams 
Francis M. Wilson 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Charles B. Wolffram 
William J. Wollman 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Wool worth 
James C. Young 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


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Members of the Commission 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 


Albany . 

Amsterdam. 

Auburn. 

Beacon . 

Binghamton. 

Buffalo. 

Canandaigua. 

Cohoes . 

Corning. 

Cortlandt. 

Dunkirk. 

Elmira. 

Fulton. 

Geneva . 

Glens Falls . 

Gloversville. 

Hornell. 

Hudson . 

Ithaca. 

Jamestown. 

Johnstown. 

Kingston . 

Lackawanna. 

Little Falls. 

Lockport. 

Middletown. 

Mount Vernon... 

Newburgh . 

New Rochelle.... 

New York. 

Niagara Falls 
North Tonawanda 

Ogdensburgh . 

Olean . 

Oneida. 

Oneonta. 

Oswego. 

Plattsburgh. 

Port Jervis. 

Poughkeepsie . 

Rensselaer . 

Rochester. 

Rome. 

Schenectady. 


.Hon James B. Me Ewan 
. Hon. J. H. Dealy 
.Hon. Thomas H. O’Neill 
. Hon. J. A. Frost 
.Hon. John J. Irving 
.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 
.Hon. Peter P. Turner 
.Hon. John F. Sco't 
.Hon. Frederick A. Ellison 
.Hon. Walter H. Angell 
.Hon. Harry B. Lyon 
.Hon. Daniel Sheehan 
.Hon. John E. Boland 
.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 
.Hon. W. Irving Gripping 
.Hon. Alden L. Henry 
.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 
.Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 
.Hon. John Reamer 
.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 
.Hon. Abraham Harrison 
. Hon. Roscoe Irwin 
.Hon. Robert H. Reed 
.Hon. Frank H. Shall 
.Hon. George H. Brock 
.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 
.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 
.Hon. John B. Corwin 
.Hon. Frederick H. Waldorf 
. Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 
_Hon. William Laughlin 
.Hon. John A. Rafter 
. Hon. Charles D. Hoard 
.Hon. Peter C. Foley 
.Hon. Otto Pfaff 
.Hon. Frank D. Blodgett 
.Hon. David D. Long 
.Hon. W. H. Goff 
.Hon. Wm. H. Nearpass 
.Hon. William H. Frank 
.Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 
.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 
.Hon. Stewart E. Townsend 
.Hon. George R. Lunn 















































Members of the Commission 


83 


Syracuse . Hon. Edward Schoeneck 

Tonawanda.Hon. Charles Zuckmaier 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica.Hon. Frank J. Baker 

Watertown.Hon. Francis M. Hugo 

Watervliet . Hon. Edwin IV. Joslin 

Yonkers . Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 

Athens.Hon. D. W. Travis 

Castleton.Hon. Christian Peters 

Catskill...Hon. Willis A. Haines 

Cold Spring.Hon. Charles M. Selleck 

Corinth.Hon. J. Finley Work 

Cornwall.Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 

Coxsackie.Hon. Henry A. Jordan 

Croton-on-Hudson.Hon. Charles E. Anderson 

Dobbs Ferry.Col. Franklin Q. Brown 

Fishkill.Hon. John P. Dugan 

Fort Edward.Hon. Alfred Brown 

Green Island.Hon. John McGowan 

Hastings-on-Hudson.Hon. T. F. Reynold 

Haverstraw.Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 

Hudson Falls.Hon. Russel C. Paris 

Irvington.Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 

Mechanicville.Hon. William A. Camfield 

North Tarrytown..Hon. Samuel T. Horton 

Nyack.Hon. James Kilby 

Ossining.Hon. J. E. Hollo 

Peekskill.Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 

Piermont.Hon. John R. Wood 

Red Hook.Hon. William S. Massoneau 

Rhinebeck.Hon. Charles A. Marquet 

Saugerties.Hon. William Ziegler 

Schuylerville.Hon. H. C. Munson 

South Glens Falls.Hon. R. S. Sherman 

South Nyack.Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 

Stillwater.Hon. William R. Palmer 

Tarrytown.Hon. F. R. Pierson 

Tivoli.. .Hon. P. H. Morey 

Upper Nyack.Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 

Victory Mills.Hon. M. E. Kelly 

Wappingers Falls.Hon. John W. Mullen 

Waterford. Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 

West Haverstraw.Hon. Louis Adler 













































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Minutes of Trustees 


Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

October 22, 1913 

The eighth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission, was held in the 
library of the Presiding Vice-President, Hon. Herman 
Ridder, at No. 182 William Street, New York City, on 
Wednesday, October 22, 1913, at 2 o’clock p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present : The Hon. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice- 
President, in the chair : Mr. John Aspegren, Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Mr. William A. Johnston, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. A. E. 
MacKinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett, 
Mr. Charles E. Spratt, and "Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. 

E. A. Norman). 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Louis 
Annin Ames, Mr. Vincent Astor, Mr. Union N. Bethell; Dr. 
Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Mr. William A. Camp, Hon. Jacob 
A. Cantor, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Dr. John H. 
Finley, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, 
Mr. Ernest Harvier, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Dr. George 

F. Kunz, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, Dr. Henry Fairfield 
Osborn, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. James Speyer, Mr. 
Theodore N. Vail and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
and they were excused. 

Minutes Corrected and Approved 

The Minutes of the last meeting were corrected by the 
insertion of the name of Mr. Ernest Harvier among those 
present and were approved as corrected. 


October 22 , 1913 


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Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
the Secretary reported the condition of the Subscription 
Fund as follows: 

Total subscriptions by Trustees, . . $490.00 

Bills approved and paid,.323.13 

Balance on hand,.$166.87 

Deaths Announced 

The Presiding Vice President asked the Trustees to rise 
while with great regret he announced the death of Mr. 
Anthony N. Brady on July 22, Mr. Louis Windmuller on 
October 1 and Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff on October 12. 

Appointments by the Mayor 

The Secretary reported that under date of October 22, 
1913, the Hon. Aldolph L. Kline, Mayor of New York, had 
appointed the following named gentlemen as members of 
the Commission upon the recommendation of the Board 
of Trustees (pages 69-70) : 

Hon. R. Ross Appleton, President of the Security Bank, 1 
East 14th Street. 

Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, merchant, 99 John Street. * 
James Douglas, LL.D., mining engineer, 99 John Street. 
Hon. Benjamin A. Keily, Water Register of New York, 21 
Park Row. 

Mr. Alfred J. McGrath, Cashier of the International Bank, 
60 Wall Street. 

Hon. George W. Perkins, capitalist, 71 Broadway. 

Mr. A. Silz, produce commission merchant, 416 West 14th 
Street. 

Mr. George C. Smith, capitalist, 30 Church Street. 

Mr. John R. Young, Manager of the Convention Bureau of 
the Merchants Association of New York, 233 Broad¬ 
way, and 

Mr. William J. Wollman, managing partner of J. S. Bache 
& Co., bankers and brokers, 42 Broadway. 

Resignation of Mr. Marble as Trustee 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. William A. 
Marble, in reply to the Secretary’s letter, written pursuant 
to the action of the Trustees at the last meeting (page 69), 
and requesting him to withdraw his resignation as a mem¬ 
ber of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Marble said he would 


*Mr. Dodge subsequently declined. 





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have to let the matter rest as covered by his letter. His 
resignation was therefore accepted with regret. 

Nominated for Appointment by the Mayor 
Col. Sackett, Chairman of the Committee on Nomina¬ 
tions, reported in behalf of the Committee recommending 
that the following named gentlemen be nominated to the 
Mayor of New York for appointment on the Commis¬ 
sion :* 

Mr. Edward K. Cone, President of the New York Cotton 
Exchange, No. 70 Cotton Exchange. 

Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild, President of the Union League 
Club, 74 Laight Street. 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy, President of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences, 198 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. 
Hon. William B. Howland, publisher, Chairman Interna¬ 
tional Committee on Peace Centennial, 119 West 40th 
Street. 

The recommendation was approved and the gentlemen 
named were nominated to the Mayor for appointment. 

Trustees Elected 

Col. Sackett also reported on behalf of the Committee 
recommending for election as Trustees the following 
named members of the Commission : 

Mr. Robert VV. Boissevain, President of the Netherlands 
Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, President of the Fifth Avenue 
Association. 

Mr. M. E. de Aguero, President of the Consolidated Stock 
Exchange. 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Professor of Music at the Normal 
College. 

Mr. Samuel V Hoffman, ex-President of the New York 
Historical Society. 

Mr. Charles R. Lamb, artist. 

Mr. William J. Lee, Supervisor of Recreation. 

Mr. E. E. Martin, President of the New York Mercantile 
Exchange. 

Mr. J. P. Morgan, capitalist. 

Mr. James E. Sullivan, Commissioner of Athletics. 

Mr. William S. Van Clief, President of the Staten Island 
Chamber of Commerce. 


*His Honor appointed the nominees on October 25. 



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October 22, 1913 

The Mayor of Ogdensburgh ; and 
The Mayor of Syracuse. 

The recommendation was approved and the gentlemen 
named were elected Trustees. 

Report of Committee on Commercial Exhibits 
Mr. Ritter, Chairman of the Committee appointed for 
the purpose, presented the following report : 

October 22, 1913. 

To the Board of Trustees of the New York 

Commercial Tercentenary Commission. 

Gentlemen: 

Your Committee, appointed at the meeting of the 
Board of Trustees held on Wednesday, October 8, to con¬ 
sider the proposition made by the A. H. Stoddard Co. Inc., 
through its President, Mr. A. H. Stoddard, in regard to the 
proposed commercial exhibitions referred to on page 58 of 
the Minutes, begs to report as follows: 

Your Committee deems it inadvisable that a contract 
such as that proposed by the A. H. Stoddard Co., Inc., 
should be made with that or any other corporation. 

It does, however, deem it advisable that an arrange¬ 
ment be made with Mr. Stoddard under some appropriate 
title such as Director of State Exhibits to have charge of 
such exhibits under the direction and control of the Com¬ 
mission, provided satisfactory financial arrangements can 
be made with him, such employment of Mr. Stoddard to be 
at the pleasure of the Board. No definite terms of com¬ 
pensation are now recommended by your Committee, but 
it is of opinion that an arrangement can be worked out 
upon a percentage basis which will be mutually satisfac¬ 
tory. In these views Mr. Stoddard concurs. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman 
N. Taylor Phillips 
Henry W. Sackett. 

Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that the report be received and 
approved, and that the Committee be continued, with the 
request to consider the subject of a definite arrangement 
with Mr. Stoddard and to make recommendation to the 
Trustees in regard thereto. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 



Official Minutes 



OF 


TheN ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
November 26 , 1913 




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The New York 

Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


President 

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St.. New York 




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Chairmen of Committees 

Athletics 

To arrange for athletic exercises. 

Chairman : Hon. James E. Sullivan, 51 Chambers 
Street.* 

Auditing 

To examine and approve bills for payment. 

Chairman : Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 51 Chambers 
Street. 

Banquet 

To arrange for the Official Banquet. 

Chairman : Samuel W. Fairchild, 74 Laight Street. 

Commercial Exhibits 

To arrange for the holding of a series of exhibitions of the 
material resources of the States of the Union. 

Chairman: Edward P. V. Ritter, 46th Street and Lex¬ 
ington Avenue. 

Contracts 

To draft the formal contracts of the Conwiission. 

Chairman : Not yet appointed. 

Design and Decoration 

To supervise the designing of floats participating in the street 
parades, and the decoration of reviewing stands and buildings. 

Chairman : Charles R. Lamb, 23 Sixth Avenue. 

Educational Institutions 

To arrange for co?nmemorative meetings and exercises, 
literary competitions, and other forms of observances by the public 
schools, colleges and universities. 

Chairman : Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Ph. D., LL. D., 
New York University. 


* All addresses New York City unless otherwise stated. 



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Chairmen of Committees 


Erie Canal 

To arrange for local celebrations along the Erie Canal from 
Buffalo to Troy , both inclusive , and in portions of the State tribu¬ 
tary thereto. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Syracuse. 

Executive 

To perform the usual duties of the Executive Committee as 
provided in the by-laws. 

Chairman : Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William Street. 

Finance 

To consider ways and means for raising funds to meet the 
expenses of the Celebration. 

Chairman : Jacob H. Schiff, William and Pine Streets. 

Flag and Poster 

To attend to the designing and making of official Flags and 
Posters. 

Chairman : Louis Annin Ames, 99 Fulton Street. 

Historical Meetings 

To arrange particularly for the official historical meeting 
on Friday , March 27, or Saturday , March 28 ; and to encour¬ 
age the holding of other historical meetings during the Celebration. 

Chairman : Samuel V. Hoffman, 258 Broadway. 

Illuminations 

To arrange for the illumination of public and private build¬ 
ings, parks and thoroughfares. 

Chairman : Hon. William Berri, 321 Fulton Street, 
Brooklyn. 

Law and Legislation 

To pass upon legal questions , draft necessary legislation , 
and, upon request of the Committee on Co?itracts , advise in the 
preparation of contracts , etc. 

Chairman : Hon. Alton B. Parker, in Broadway. 


Chairmen of Committees 


93 


Local Festivals 

To arrange for the holding of children's festivals and fiestas 
by the people of different nationalities. 

Chairman: Hon. William J. Lee, The Arsenal, Central 
Park. 

Lower Hudson 

To arrange for local celebrations along the Hudson River 
from Yonkers to West Point, both inclusive. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Yonkers. 

Medals and Badges 

To arrange for the making of the Official Medal of the 
Commission , medals awarded for prizes, and the Official Badges, 
the distribution thereof to be regulated by order of the Trustees. 

Chairman : George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., 401 Fifth 
Avenue. 

Memorials 

To arrange for the erection of a permanent ?nemorial or perma¬ 
nent memorials, lender the auspices of the Commission, and to en¬ 
courage the erection of historical tablets, etc., by various organ¬ 
izations. 

Chairman : Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D., Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn. 

Museum Exhibits 

To arrange for the holding of exhibitions by art, scientific and 
historical museums and societies. 

Chairman : J. Pierpont Morgan, 23 Wall Street. 

Music Festivals 

To arrange for the holding of music festivals in co-operation 
with the Peace Centennial Committee. 

Chairman : Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Normal College. 

Naval Events 

To arrange for reviews and parades, and other events upon the 
water participated in by naval, merchant, passenger and pleasure 
vessels. 

Chairman : Hon. R. A. C. Smith, 100 Broadway. 


94 


Chairmen of Committees 


Netherlands 

To secure the co-operation of and participation by the people of 
the Netherlands. 

Chairman : Henry L. Bogert, 99 Nassau Street. 

Nominations 

To consider and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees 
concerning persons proposed as members, Trustees or Officers of the 
Commission. 

Chairman : Col. Henry W. Sackett, 154 Nassau Street. 

Northern New York 

To arrange for local celebrations in counties north of those 
tributary to the Erie Canal. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Ogdensburg. 

Panama Canal 

To arrange for a commemoration of the practical opening of 
the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Committee and the Pan - 
American Congress Committee to co-operate in their plans. 

Chairman : Hon. Theodore P. Shonts, 165 Broadway. 

Pan-American Congress 

To arrange for a conference of representatives of the countries 
of the Americas in regard to their commercial welfare. The Pan- 
American Congress Committee and the Panama Canal Committee to 
co-operate in their plans. 

Chairman : Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip, 55 Wall Street 

Peace Centennial 

To arrange for the commemoration of the one hundredth anni¬ 
versary of peace between the United States and Great Britain. The 
Peace Centennial Committee and the Music Festivals Committee to 
co-operate in their plans. 

Chairman : Hon. William B. Howland, 119 West 40th 
Street. 

Plan and Scope 

To make recommendations concerning the plan and scope of the 
Celebration. 

Chairman : Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row. 

Vice-Chairman: Hon.William Berri, 321 Fulton Street, 
Brooklyn. 


Chairmen of Committees 


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Publicity 

To disseminate public information about the Celebration. 

Chairman: A. E. MacKinnon, Pulitzer Building. 

Reception 

To perform the usual functions of the Reception Committee in 
receiving official guests and arranging for their accommodation. 

Chairman : Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine 
Street. 

Religious Meetings 

To arrange for the opening religious meeting Friday, March 
27, and the closing religious meeting Sunday, October 11, and 
suitable observances in all houses of worship on Sunday, March 29. 

Chairman : Hon. John D. Crimmins, 620 Madison 
Avenue. 

Reviewing Stands 

To arrange for the erection of official reviewing stands for the 
use of the Commission and the public. 

Chairman: William A. Johnston, Pulitzer Building. 

Southern New York 

To arrange for local celebrations in counties south of those 
tributary to the Erie Canal and west of those bordering on the 
Hudson River. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Binghamton. 

Street Parades 

To arrange for the various street parades in New York City. 

Chairman : Gen. George R. Dyer, N. G. N. Y., 36 
Wall Street. 

Vice Chairmen : To be appointed later for the different 
parades. 

Upper Hudson 

To arrange for local celebrations along the Hudson River from 
Albany to Cornwall, both inclusive. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Albany. 


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Members of the Commission 


(Revised to Dec. 8, 1913. 

Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Newton D. Ailing 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John Aspegren 
Vincent Aston 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Marcus Benjamin 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Union N. Bet hell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
E. B. Boynton 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
C. C, Brown 

Elmer E. Brown , Ph. D., LL. D. 

James W. Brown 

John H. Burroughs 

J. R. Butler 

Hon. William M. Calder 

Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 


Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

William A. Camp 
James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie. LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 

William Hamlin Childs 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 

Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 

Henry Clews, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Edward K. Cone 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

John B. Creighton 

Hon. John D. Crimmins 

Hon. George Cromwell 

William N. Cromwell 

Warren Cruikshank 

Col. Michael J. Cummings 

Andrew Cuneo 

Charles F. Daly 

Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 

M. E. de Aguero 

Albert de Cernea 

John D. DeFriest 

William D. Dickey 

Charles H. Ditson 

James Douglas, LL. D. 

John Dowd 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 


Members of the Commission 


97 


Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Samuel W. Fairchild 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
Bert hold Flesch, M. D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 

W. C. Freeman 

Charles H. Fuller 

Michael Furst 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. Gould 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

T. Greidanus 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

Dr. William H. Hale 

Edward Hagaman Hall L. H.D. 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Ernest Harvier 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin IV. Hoofer, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 


Walter B. Hopping 
Hon. William B. Howland 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
A.E. Johnson 

Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Hon. Benjamin A. Keilv 
Cornelius G. Koljf 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Hans LagerloJ 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 
William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D,, LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 

W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 
James B. Mabon 
Clarence H. Ma ckay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
William A. Marble 
Edwin E. Martin 
Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Alfred J. McGrath 
S. C. Mead 
S. A. Miles 
Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 
L. E. Miller ' 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
J. Pierpont Morgan 
Henry Morgenthau 
Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 


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Members of the Commission 


William A. Nash 
George W. Neville 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Oliphant 

Henry E. Osborn, Pk. D., LL. D. 

Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. William A. Prendergast 

Charles W. Price 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 

H. H. Raymond 

Fred A. Reed 

William C. Reick 

Charles E. Reid 

Rev. Christian F. Reisner 

Hon. Herma7i Ridder 

Edward P. V. Ritter 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlessinger 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

Hon. John A. Sleicher 
George Carson Smith 


Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Hon. Janies E. Sullivan 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 
Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Com. Cornelius Va?iderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Hon. Judson G. Wall 
Hon. John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Whitney Warren 
Hon. James L. Wells 
Edmund Wetmore 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
Hon. William R. Willcox 
Arthur Williams 
T. S. Williams 
Francis M. Wilson 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Charles B. Wolffram 
William J. Wollman 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Wool worth 
James C. Young 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Members of the Commission 


99 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 


Alba?iy . Hon James B. Me Ewan 

Amsterdam.Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn.Hon. Thomas H. O’Neill 

Beacon.Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton.Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua.Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes .. H 07 i. John F. Scott 

Corning.Hon. Frederick A. Ellison 

Cortlandt..Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk.Hon. Harry B. Lyon 

Elmira.Hon. Daniel Sheehan 

Fulton.Hon. John E. Boland 

Geneva.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Gripping 

Gloversville.Hon. Alden L. Henry 

Hornell.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca. Hon. John Reamer 

Jamestown.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown.Hon. Abraham Harrison 

Kingston . Hon. Roscoe Irwin 

Lackawanna.Hon. Robert H. Reed 

Little Falls.Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport.Hon. George H. Brock 

Middletown.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon. Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh . Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Frederick H. Waldorf 

New York.Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 

Niagara Falls.Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda.Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh . Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. Peter C. Foley 

Oneida.Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta.Hon. Frank D. Blodgett 

Oswego.Hon. David D. Long 

Plattsburgh.Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. Wm. H. Nearpass 

Poughkeepsie . Hon. William H. Frank 

Rensselaer . Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

Rome.Hon. Stewart E. Townsend 

Schenectady.Hon. George R. Lunn 















































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Members of the Commission 


Syracuse . Hon. Edward Schoeneck 

Tonawanda.Hon. Charles Zuckmaier 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica.Hon. Frank J. Baker 

Watertown.Hon. Francis M. Hugo 

Watervliet . Ho?i. Edwin W.Joslin 

Yonkers . Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton. 

Catskill. 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth. 

Cornwall. 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson .. 

Dobbs Ferry. 

Fishkill. 

Fort Edward. 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Mechanicville. 

North Tarrytown 

Nyack. 

Ossining. 

Peekskill. 

Piermont.. 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck. 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls ... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills. 

Wappingers Falls..., 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw ... 


. Hon. D. W. Travis 
.Hon. Christian Peters 
.Hon. Willis A. Haines 
. Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
, . Hon. J. Finley Work 
.Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 
,. Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
.. Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
.Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
. .Hon. John P. Dugan 
. .Hon. Alfred Brown 
. .Hon. John McGowan 
.. Hon. T. F. Reynold 
. .Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
, .Hon. Russel C. Paris 
. .Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
. .Hon. William A. Catnfield 
. .Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
. .Hon. James Kilby 
..Hon. J. E. Hollo 
.. Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
..Hon. John R. Wood 
.Hon. William S. Massoneau 
.. Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
..Hon. William Ziegler 
. .Hon. H. C. Munson 
.. Hon. R. S. Sherman 
..Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
. .Hon. William R. Palmer 
..Hon. F. R. Pierson 
.. Hon. P. H. Morey 
. . Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
..Hon. M. E. Kelly 
. .Hon. John W. Mullen 
. Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
.. Hon. Louis Adler 













































IOI 


Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

November 26, 1913 

The ninth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Presiding Vice-President, the Hon. Herman 
Ridder, at No. 182 William Street, New York City, on 
Wednesday, November 26, 1913, at 2 o’clock p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present : The Hon. Herman Ridder, Presiding Vice- 
President, in the chair ; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. John 
Aspegren, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Chancellor Elmer Ells¬ 
worth Brown, Gen. Howard Carroll, Commodore Fred B. 
Dalzell, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. 
Cornelius G. Kolff, Hon. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. Mac¬ 
Kinnon, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. 
Jacob H. Schiff, and Mr Arthur Williams. Mr. A. H. 
Stoddard was present by request. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Gen. George R. Dyer, 
Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Mr. Ernest 
Harvier, Mr. William A. Johnston, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Dr. Henry 
Fairfield Osborn, Mr. James Speyer, and Mr. William 
Zeigler, Jr., and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The Minutes of the Trustees meeting held October 22, 
having been printed and sent to all the members of the 
Commission, were approved as printed. 

Appointments by the Mayor 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter from the 
Executive Secretary of His Honor the Mayor of New York, 
dated October 28, communicating the appointment, by the 


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Mayor on his own initiative, of Mr. Charles B. Wolffram 
of the New Yorker Herold, No. 22 North William Street, 
and Mr. Albert de Cernea of Durland’s Riding Academy, 
West 66th Street, as members of the Commission, and 
their names were ordered to be enrolled. 

Appreciation of Mrs. William J. Gay nor 
The Secretary laid before the Board the following 
communication, referring to the action of the Board con¬ 
cerning Mayor Gaynor’s death (pp. 52-54): 

20 Eighth Avenue 
Brooklyn 

October 25, 1913. 

Dear Sir : 

I beg to acknowledge with heartfelt thanks the receipt 
of your letter conveying to me the sympathy of the trus¬ 
tees of your Commission at my husband’s death. Please 
accept from me and convey to the members of your Com¬ 
mission my deepest appreciation of your kindness. 

Sincerely yours, 

Augusta C. Gaynor 

Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau St., Manhattan. 

Declinations of Messrs. Dodge and Douglas 
The Secretary laid before the Board communications 
from Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge and Dr. James Douglas, 
dated respectively October 24th and November 6th, de¬ 
clining their appointments as members of the Commission 
(page 85), and the Secretary was directed to omit their 
names from the roll of members. 

Committee Chairman Appointed 
The Presiding Vice-President announced that on 
November 10, Commodore Vanderbilt, the President of 
the Commission, had appointed the Chairman of Commit¬ 
tees named on pages 91-95 preceding. He stated that during 
the following month the members of the Commission 
would be assigned to various committees and that sugges¬ 
tions concerning such membership received in the mean¬ 
time would be referred to the President for consideration. 


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November 26, 1913 103 

Nominated for Appointment by the Mayor 

Col. Sackett, Chairman of the Committee on Nomina¬ 
tions, presented the following report : 

New York, November 26, 1913. 

To the Trustees of the New York 

Commercial Tercentenary Commission : 

Gentlemen : 

Your Committee on Nominations respectfully recom¬ 
mends for election as a member of the Board of Trustees 
Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild, President of the Union League 
Club. 

Your Committee also proposes for recommendation by 
the Trustees to His Honor the Mayor for appointment as 
a member of the Commission Mr. Marcus Benjamin of 
West End Avenue, between 93rd and 94th Streets, who was 
a member of the Hudson-Fulton Commission 

Henry W. Sackett, Chairman 

Howard Carroll 

E. H. Hall 

Committee. 

The recommendations were approved and the Secretary 
was directed to communicate the nominations to the Mayor. 

Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild Elected Trustee 

In accordance with the recommendation of the Com¬ 
mittee on Nominations, Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild was 
elected a member of the Board of Trustees. 

Report of Committee on Arrangement with Mr. A. H. Stoddard 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Committee 
appointed for the purpose, presented the following report : 

New York, November 25, 1913. 
To the Board of Trustees of the New York 

Commercial Tercentenary Commission. 

Gentlemen : 

Your committee has considered the subject of a definite 
arrangement with Mr. A. H. Stoddard in regard to his 
taking charge of and acting as Director of Exhibits. We 
would suggest that a contract be entered into with Mr. 
Stoddard for himself and associates on the following basis : 

He is to undertake the active management in securing 
exhibits for exhibitions to be held during the celebration, 
his title to be “Director of Exhibits.” The Commission to 
immediately issue invitations to the Governors, Mayors, 


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Municipalities, Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, 
Railroads and Business Corporations to participate in our 
celebration. 

The active solicitation for exhibits to be undertaken 
by Mr. Stoddard and his associates, they to receive 

20 per cent, of the gross receipts received by us from 
all exhibits until $150,000 has been obtained. 

15 per cent, on any excess above the $150,000 up to 
and including $250,000 

10 per cent, on all amounts above $250,000. 

All floats for the different pageants to be constructed 
by contract made by the exhibitor directly with a construc¬ 
tion company, Mr. Stoddard to be paid 10 per cent, by the 
exhibitor upon the cost of floats for supervising the con¬ 
struction and managing the pageant. In all the above Mr. 
Stoddard has concurred. 

Immediate action is necessary to insure the success of 
the enterprise. If any delay is had it would require ad¬ 
ditional expenditure of money to enable Mr. Stoddard and 
his associates to visit the different states and secure par¬ 
ticipation in the exhibitions. We believe, however, that if 
this matter is set in motion at once, the majority of the 
exhibits could be secured by correspondence. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. P. V. Ritter 
N. Taylor Phillips 
Henry W. Sackett 

Committee. 

Mr. Schiff said he approved of the report and moved 
its adoption. 

The discussion of the report turned chiefly upon the 
question whether it was better to contract with Mr. Stoddard 
on a commission basis or to employ him at a fixed salary. 

Mr. Ridder was strongly of the opinion that the Ter¬ 
centenary Commission should do no business on a com¬ 
mission basis, citing the policy of his own and other large 
business concerns as precedent. He preferred employing 
the assistants of the Commission at a fixed and adequate 
compensation, at the pleasure of the Commission, and 
keeping in its hands direct control of its business. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, in answer to inquiries, explained 
that the supervision of the commercial exhibits and the 
building of floats involved a great amount of work and the 


November 26 , 1913 


105 


plan recommended would compensate Mr. Stoddard and 
his staff of assistants in proportion to their labors. The 
plan contemplated that the States would pay to the trea¬ 
sury of this Commission for their exhibition space and that 
this Commission would pay the exhibition hall company 
for that space. Out of these gross receipts, the percentages 
mentioned in the report would be paid to Mr. Stoddard. 
The contracts for building floats, however, would be made 
direct by the exhibitors with the float-constructing com¬ 
pany and the exhibitor (not the Commission) would pay 
10 per cent, commission on cost of construction to Mr. 
Stoddard. 

Dr. Hooper was averse to placing the exhibits in the 
hands of any outside party to shape the enterprise. The 
Commission ought to retain direct control of everything 
and ought to receive from the exhibitors something over 
and above the cost of the exhibitions as a contribution 
toward the general expenses of the celebration. He in¬ 
quired whether the States were expected to exhibit in their 
corporate capacity as States, or merchants and manufac¬ 
turers would take space by individual enterprise; and was 
informed that while it was expected that the Governors in 
their official capacities would recommend exhibitions by 
the citizens of their States, the exhibitions would generally 
be by private enterprise. 

Col. Sackett said that he thought that the precautions 
mentioned by Dr. Hooper were provided for in the report. 
Personally he concurred with Mr. Ridder’s view if it could 
be arranged on that basis. The reason why the committee 
had recommended a commission basis of compensation 
rather than a stated sum was that the situation required 
prompt action in order that the States might be brought 
into the celebration; that Mr. Stoddard and his associates 
had already done much preparatory work ; and that if he 
were paid by a salary, there was no way in which to com¬ 
pensate him for these services and expenses without care¬ 
fully figuring them out. If practicable to agree on a stated 
sum to Mr. Stoddard to cover all of these preliminary ser¬ 
vices and expenses he would favor it ; but he thought that 


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the large percentage on the early business would cover 
those considerations, after which the percentages grew less. 
Under any contract with Mr. Stoddard, the Commission 
should reserve the right to terminate it at discretion. 

Gen. Carroll asked if the States were to be invited by 
the Commission or by an outside association to exhibit and 
was informed that the invitations would be directly from 
the Commission. The power to invite would not be dele¬ 
gated to others. He also asked if the States were expected 
to pay for their exhibitions and was informed that the 
States were expected to pay to this Commission the cost 
of the exhibition space occupied by them. 

Mr. Greenhut favored the recommendation of the re¬ 
port. He did not see how to carry out the projected ex¬ 
hibits except on the commission basis. That plan was the 
best to promote energy. So long as the arrangements were 
under control of the Commission the interests of the pub¬ 
lic would be safeguarded. While the members of the 
Commission were glad to devote their time to its meetings 
and the guidance of its affairs without compensation, it 
was necessary to employ some competent man like Mr. 
Stoddard to look out for the details. 

Mr. Phillips said that the main object of the committee 
in preparing its report was to avoid the situation which ex¬ 
isted in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, in 
which the Commission itself carried on the business of 
manufacturing the floats, buying all the materials and 
carrying a weekly payroll of artists and artizans. The 
present plan would accomplish the same result without the 
Commission’s going into business, and it would simplify 
the Commission’s finances and avoid civil service compli¬ 
cations. The Commission would retain supreme control, 
but would not be in the business of buying linen, and tape, 
and trucks, etc. 

Mr. Aspegren, Mr. Reid, and others present also par¬ 
ticipated in the consideration of the report, and Mr. Stod¬ 
dard gave information in response to various questions. 

Mr. Reid moved as a substitute for Mr. Schiff’s motion 


November 26, 1913 107 

that the report be referred back to the committee, to which 
the Executive ‘Officers should be added, with power to 
work out and execute an arrangement with Mr. Stoddard. 
The substitute was adopted* 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


* At a meeting of the Committee and Executive Officers, held December 3, 19x3, it 
was voted: 

“ That Mr. A. H. Stoddard be engaged by the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission as Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry, at a salary of $625 a 
month, beginning December 1, 1913, payable when funds therefor are available; that his 
authorized expenses be paid in addition thereto; that he shall give his entire time to the 
service of the Commission and act only under its instructions; and that the engagement 
be terminable at the pleasure of the Commission.” 















































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109 


Official Minutes 

OF 


The N ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary C 


ommission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
December 26 , 1913 
and Committees 




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The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


OFFICERS 


President 

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 




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COMMITTEES 


Athletics Committee 

To arrange for athletic exercises. 

Chairman: Hon. James E. Sullivan, 51 Chambers St. * 


John Aspegren 
Aaron J. Bach 
Paul Bonynge 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
C. Ward Crampton, M. D. 
George Ehret 
Terence Farley 


Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 


Matthew P. Halpin 
Hon. William J. Lee 
Frederick W. Rubien 
J. H. Steinhardt 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 
Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Jacob Stumpf 


Auditing Committee 

To examine and approve bills for payment. 

Chairman : Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 51 Chambers St. 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe Hon. William R. Willcox 


Banquet Committee 

To arrange for the Official Banquet. 

Chairman : Samuel W. Fairchild, 74 Laight Street 
Charles F. Daly Hon, R. A. C. Smith 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. Hon. Calvin Tomkins 


Commercial Exhibits Committee 

To arrange for the holding of a series of exhibitions of the 
material resources of the States of the Union. 


Chairman: E. P. V. Ritter. 

Vice-Chairman: Arthur 
John Aspegren 
Charles J. Austin 
Charles Beckman 
F. S. Bishop 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
William C. Breed 
J. R. Butler 
Gen. Howard Carroll 


46th St. and Lexington Ave. 

Williams, 55 Duane Street 
Edward K. Cone 
Cesare Conti 
Clarkson Cowl 
John B. Creighton 
M. E. de Aguero 
John D. De Friest 
William D. Dickey 
John Dowd 
Joseph N. Francolini 
John F. Geis 


* All addresses New York City unless otherwise stated. 



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Committees 


Isaac Gimbel 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
Ernest Harvier 

R. H. Hooper 
A. E. Johnson 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Hans Lagerlof 
W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 
Edwin E. Martin 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. George W. Perkins 


Hon. N. T. Phillips 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Leo Schlesinger 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Luigi Solari 
George C. Smith 
Charles E. Spratt 
Lee J. Vance 
Otis Fenner Wood 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Contracts Committee 

To draft the formal contracts of the Commission. 

Chairman: Hon. Robert L. Harrison,-59 Wall St. 
Henry L. Bogert John Jay McKelvey 

Henry E. Gregory Nelson S. Spencer 


Design anti Decoration Committee 

To supervise the designing of floats participating in the street 
parades, a?id the decoration of reviewing stands and buildings. 

Chairman : Charles R. Lamb, 23 Sixth Avenue 
Whitney Warren 


Educational Institutions Committee 


To arrange for commemorative meetings and exercises, 
literary competitions, and other forms of observances by the public 
schools, colleges and universities. 


Chairman : Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Ph. D., LL. D., New York 

University 


Nicholas Murray Butler, LL.D., 
Litt. D. 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
John H. Finley, Ph.D., LL. D. 
Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 
Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S, 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 


H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
W. H. Maxwell, Ph. D., LL. D. 
John B. Pine 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph. D. 
Talcott Williams, LL.D., L.H.D. 
Hon. Egerton L. Winlhrop, Jr. 


Committees 


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Erie Canal Committee 

To arrange for local celebrations along the Erie Canal from 
Buffalo to Troy, both inclusive, and in portions of the State tribu¬ 
tary thereto. 


Chairman : The Mayor of Syracuse 


Mayor of Amsterdam 

“ “ Auburn 

“ “ Buffalo 

“ Canandaigua 
“ “ Fulton 

“ “ Geneva 

“ Gloversville 
“ Johnstown 
“ Little Falls 
“ “ Lockport 

Mayo 


Mayor of Niagara Falls 

“ North Tonawanda 
“ “ Oneida 

“ “ Oneonta 

“ “ Oswego 

“ “ Rochester 

“ “ Rome 

“ “ Schenectady 

“ “ Syracuse 

“ “ Tonawanda 

of Utica 


Executive Committee 

To perform the usual duties of the Executive Committee as 


provided in the by-laws. 

Chairman: Hon. Herman 
Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
George J. Gould 
Edward Hagaman Hall 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Ridder, 182 William Street 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Finance Committee 

To consider ways and means for raising funds to meet the 
expenses of the Celebration. 


Chairman 

Newton D. Ailing 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
E. R. Chapman 
Henry Clews 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Edward Earl 
Stuyvesant Fish 
Hon. A. B. Hepburn 
Otto H. Kahn 

William 


Vacant 

James B. Mabon 
Lewis E. Pierson 
Henry Ruhlander 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Theodore N. Vail 
Ziegler, Jr. 







Committees 


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Flag and Poster Committee 

To attend to the designing and making of official Flags and 
Posters. 

Chairman : Louis Annin Ames, 99 Fulton Street 
Henry R. Drowne Leopold Langrock 

Walter B. Hopping Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 

Charles R. Lamb George Naught 


Historical Meetings Committee 

To arrange particularly for the official historical ?neeting 
o?i Friday, March 27, or Saturday , March 28 j and to encour¬ 
age the holdmg of other historical meetings duri?ig the Celebration. 


Chairman : Samuel V. 
Louis Annin Ames 
Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc.D. 
Reginald P. Bolton 
John H. Burroughs 
John C. Eames 
Berthold Flesch, M. D. 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 
Walter B. Hopping 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 


Hoffman, 258 Broadway. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
Robert Oliphant 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Edmund Wetmore 
Henry A. Wise Wood 


Illuminations Committee 

To arrange for the illumination of public and private build¬ 
ings, parks and thoroughfares. 

Chairman : Hon. William Berri, 321 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 
Nicholas F. Brady Charles W. Price 

Lewis B. Gawtry Hon. Judson G. Wall 

William A. Johnston Arthur Williams 


Caw and Legislation Committee 


To pass upon legal questions , draft necessary legislation , 
and, upon request of the Co?nmittee on Co?itracts, advise in the 
preparation of contracts, etc. 


Chairman: Hon. Alton B. Parker, in Broadway 
Hon. J. Sergeant Cram Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

William Nelson Cromwell Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. John E. Eustis Col. Henry W. Sackett 

Hon. William G. McAdoo Charles Steckler 

Hon. George B. McClellan Edmund Wetmore 

Hon. William R. Willcox 


Committees 


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Local Festivals Committee 

To arrange for the holding of children's festivals and fiestas 
by the people of different nationalities. 


Chairman : Hon. William 
John Adikes 
Robert C. Auld 
Bernard M. Baruch 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Charles A. Boody 
James R. Butler 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

Hon. Maurice E. Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

John B. Creighton 

Hon. George Cromwell 

Andrew Cuneo 

Albert de Cernea 

Hon. Michael J. Drummond 

George L. Egbert 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 


. Lee, The Arsenal, Central Park 
John F. Geis 
Ernest Hamer 
Cornelius J. Kolff 
Charles R. Lamb 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. Charles J. McCormack 
Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 
L. E. Miller 
Adolph I. Namm 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Willis W. Russell 
A.Silz 

Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

Hon. James E. Sullivan 
William S. Van Clief 
Hon. James L. Wells 
Arthur Williams 


Lower Hudson Committee 

To arrange for local celebrations along the Hudson River 
from Yonkers to West Point, both inclusive. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Yonkers 


Mayor of Middletown 
“ “ Mount Vernon 

“ “ New Rochelle 

President of Cold Spring 

“ “ Croton on Hudson 

“ “ Dobbs Ferry 

“ “ Hastings-on-Hud- 

son 

“ “ Haver straw 


President of Irvington 

“ “ North Tarrytown 

“ “ Nyack 

“ “ Ossining 

“ “ Peekskill 

“ “ Piermont 

“ “ South Nyack 

“ “ Tarrytown 

“ “ Upper Nyack 


President of West Haverstraw 


Medal and Badge Committee 

To arrange for the making of the Official Medal of the 
Commission, medals aiuarded for prizes, and the Official Badges, 
the distribution thereof to be regulated by order of the Trustees. 

Chairman : Henry R. Drowne, ioi Broad Street 
Edward Holbrook Archer M. Huntington, Litt. D. 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc. D. 


Committees 


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Memorials Committee 

To arrange for the erection ofa pertnanent memorial or perma¬ 
nent ?nemorials, under the auspices of the Commission, and to en¬ 
courage the erection of historical tablets, etc., by various organ¬ 
izations. 

Chairman: Franklin W. Hooper, LL.D., Institute of Arts and 

Sciences, Brooklyn 


Vincent Astor 
Edward C. Blum 
Hon, David A. Boody 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
William H. Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 
Charles H. Fuller 
George J. Gould 
Herbert F. Gunnison 
Edward Hagaman Hall 
Hon. A. Augustus Healy 
Hon. A. B. Hepburn 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Marcus M. Marks 
Hon. Douglas Mathewson 


Hon. George McAneny 

Hon. Charles J. McCormack 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

J. Pierpont Morgan 

Henry F. Osborn, LL.D., Ph.D. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 

Frederick B. Pratt 

Hon. William A. Prendergast 

Hon. Herman Ridder 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Hon. William R. Willcox 
Timothy S. Williams 


Museum Exhibits Committee 

To arrange for the holding of exhibitions by art, scientific and 
historical museums and societies. 

Chairman : George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc. D., 401 Fifth Avenue 
N. L. Britton, Ph. D., Sc. D. Archer M. Huntington, Litt.D. 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest J. Pierpont Morgan 

William T. Hornaday, Sc. D. Henry F, Osborn, LL.D., Ph.D. 


Musie Festivals Committee 

To arrange for the holding of music festivals in co-operation 
with the Peace Centennial Committee . 


Chairman : Prof. Henry 
Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D., LL. D. 
Charles H. Ditson 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Hon. Robert L. Harrison 
Hon. William B. Howland 
William A. Johnston 
Hon. William J. Lee 


. Fleck, Normal College 
Hon. Alrick H. Man 
Alfred J. McGrath 
S. C. Mead 

Lewis Rutherford Morris 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
George Martin Seeley 


Committees 


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Naval Events Committee 

To arrange for reviews and parades, and other events upon the 
water participated in by naval, merchant, passenger and pleasure 
vessels. 


Chairman : Hon. 
Hon. Robert Adamson 
C. C. Brown 
Com. Fred B. Dalzell 
William B. Dickey 
John Dowd 
Clarence L. Fabre 
Michael Furst 

Fra 


. A. C. Smith, ioo Broadway 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Eben E. Olcott 
Eugene H. Outerbridge 
W. H. Pleasants 
H. H. Raymond 
Willard U. Tavlor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
:is M. Wilson 


Net her lands Committee 

To secure the co-operation of and participation by the people of 
the Netherlands. 

Chairman : Henry L. Bogert, 99 Nassau Street 
Tunis G. Bergen T. Greidanus 

Robert W. Boissevain Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Earl Ralph Peters 

Nominations Committee 

To consider and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees 
concerning persons proposed as members. Trustees or Officers of the 
Commission. 

Chairman: Col. Henry W. Sackett, 154 Nassau Street 
Gen. Howard Carroll Edward Hagaman Hall 

Northern New York Committee 

To arrange for local celebrations in counties north of those 
tributary to the Erie Canal. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Watertown 
Mayor of Ogdensburg Mayor of Plattsburg 

Panama Cana! Committee 

To arrange for a commemoration of the practical opening of 
the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Committee and the Pan- 
American Congress Committee to co-operate in their plans. 

Chairman : Hon. Theodore P. Shonts, 165 Broadway 
C. C. Brown H. H. Raymond 

Hon. William G. McAdoo Thomas F. Ryan 

W. H. Pleasants Hon. Charles A. Towne 


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Committees 


Pan-American Congre§§ Committee 


To arrange for a conference of representatives of the coutitnes 
of the Americas in regard to their commercial welfare. The Pan- 
American Congress Committee and the Panama Canal Committee to 
co-oferate in their plans. 

Chairman: Vacant 


August Belmont 
Union N. Bethell 
Henry Escher, Jr. 
William A. Nash 


George Carson Smith 
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip 
Major James Otis Woodward 
John R. Young 


Peace Centennial Committee 

To arra7ige for the commemoration of the 07ie hundredth a7ini- 
versary of peace betwee7i the United States a7id Great Britain. The 


Peace Ce7iten7iial Co77i77iittee a7id 
co-operate i7i their plans. 

Chairman : Hon. William B. 

George C. Boldt 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
James G. Cannon 
William Nelson Cromwell 
William C. Demorest 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 


the Music Festivals Co77imittee to 

Howland, 119 West 40th Street 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
Charles E. Gehring 
Andrew B. Humphrey 
John A. Stewart 
Frank Wool worth 


Plan and Scope Committee 

To 77iake reco77ii7ie7idatio7is co7icer7ii7ig the pia7i a7id scope of the 
Celebratio)i. 

Chairman : Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row 


Vice-Chairman: Hon. William 

Charles J. Austin 

Henry L. Bogert 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D., LL. D. 

John H. Burroughs 

John B. Creighton 

Com. Fred B. Dalzell 

Gen. George R. Dyer 

John H. Finley, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 


Berri, 321 Fulton St., Brooklyn 
William A. Johnston 
Cornelius J. Kolff 
A. E. MacKinnon 
William A. Marble 
William C. Muschenheim 
Eben E. Olcott 
H. F. Osborn, Ph. D.. LL. D. 

E. P. V. Ritter 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Edmund Wetmore 
Arthur Williams 


Committees 


119 


Publicity Committee 

To disseminate public information about the Celebration . 
Chairman : A. E. MacKinnon, Pulitzer Building 
Robert C. Auld Roy w. Howard 

Rudolph Block Frank A. Munsey 

James W. Brown e. A. Norman 

John C. Cook John A. Poynton 

Stephen Farrelly William C. Reick 

W. C. Freeman Hon. John A. Sleicher 

J. E. Hardenbergh Talcott Williams, LL.D., L.H.D 

John A. Hennessy Charles B. Wolffram 

Reception Committee 

To perform, the usual functions of the Reception Committee in 
receiving official guests and arranging for their accommodation . 

Chairman : Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine Street 


Vincent Astor 
Hon. David A. Boody 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Samuel W. Fairchild 
Elbert H. Gary 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 


J. Pierpont Morgan 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
Hon. George W. Perkins 
Hon. William A. Prendergast 
Fred A. Reed 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Hon. Elihu Root 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Isaac N. Seligman 
James Speyer 


Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 


Religious Meetings Committee 

To arrange for the opening religious meeting Friday, March 
27, and the closing religious meeting Sunday, October 11, and 
suitable observances in all houses of worship on Sunday, March 29. 

Chairman : Hon. John D. Crimmins, 620 Madison Avenue 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale Hugh Connolly 

D. J. Burrell, D. D. Charles H. Fuller 

Rev. Christian F. Reisner 


Reviewing Stands Committee 

To arrange for the erection of official reviewing stands for the 
use of the Commission and the public. 

Chairman : William A. Johnston, Pulitzer Building 
William A. Boring Hon. Benjamin A. Keily 

Warren Cruikshank Henry Morgenthau 

John J. Hopper Charles E. Reid 

David H. Hyman Thomas F. Smith 

William J. Wollman 


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Committees 


Southern New York Committee 

To arrange for local celebrations in counties south of those 
tributary to the Erie Canal and west of those bordering on the 
Hudson River. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Binghamton 


Mayor of Corning 

Mayor of Ithaca 

“ " Cortland 

“ Jamestown 

“ “ Dunkirk 

“ “ Lackawanna 

“ 44 Elmira 

44 44 Olean 

“ 44 Hornell 

« Port Jervis 


Street Parades Committee 

To arrange for the various street parades in New York City. 
Chairman: Gen. George R. Dyer, N. G. N. Y., 36 Wall Street 
Vice Chairmen: To be appointed later for the different parades 


Lieut. C. J. Ahern 

A. G. Batchelder 

H. A. Bonnell 

E. B. Boynton 

John Carstensen 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

Col. Michael J. Cummings 

Albert de Cernea 

J. B. Greenhut 

James 


A. E. Hadlock 
Dr. William H. Hale 
J. W. H. Hamilton 
C. C. Hanch 
Richard C. Hollaman 
Major F. L. V. Hoppin 
G. Murray Hurlbert 
J. Harris Jones 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
C. Young 


Upper Hudson Committee 

To arrange for local celebrations along the Hudson River from 
Albany to Cornwall, both inclusive. 

Chairman : The Mayor of Albany 


Mayor of Beacon 

“ 44 Cohoes 

“. “ Glens Falls “ 

“ “ Hudson 

“ “ Kingston “ 

44 44 Newburgh 

“ “ Poughkeepsie 

“ “ Rensselaer 

“ “ Troy 

“ “ Watervliet 

President of Athens 

“ “ Castleton 

“ “ Catskill 

“ “ Corinth 

“ “ Cornwall “ 

President of Waterford 


President of Coxsackie 
“ 44 Fishkill 

“ Fort Edward 
“ Green Island 
“ Hudson Falls 
“ Mechanicville 
“ Red Hook 
“ Rhinebeck 
“ Saugerties 
44 Schuylerville 
44 South Glens Falls 
“ Stillwater 
“ Tivoli 
“ Victory Mills 
“ Wappingers Falls 



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COMMISSION 


UIember§ by Appointment 


(Revised to Jan. 20, 1914. 

Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Lieut. C. J. Ahern 
Newton D. Ailing 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John Asjegren 
Vincent Aston 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc. D. 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Union N. Bet hell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Reginald Pelham Bolton 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
William A. Boring 
E. B. Boynton 
Nicholas F. Brady 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 


Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc.D., Ph.D 

C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Pit. D., LL. D. 
James W. Brown 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL.D .Litt.D. 
Hon. William M. Calder 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrezu Car?iegie. LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
Henry Clews, Ph. D., LL. D. 
Edward K. Cone 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 

John B. Creighton 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
William N. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Charles F. Daly 


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Members of the Commission 


Com. Fred . - 5 . Dalzell 
M. E. de Agaero 
Albert de Cernea 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
John D. DeFriest 
William C. Demorest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
John Dowd 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen . George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Clarence L. Fabre 

Samuel W. Fairchild 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
Perl hold Flesch, M. D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 
W. C. Freeman 
Charles H. Fuller 
Michael Furst 
Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 
Elbert H. Gary 
L. B. Gawtry 
Charles E. Gehring 
John F. Geis 
Isaac Gimbel 
George J. Gould 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
J. B. Greenhut 
Henry E. Gregory 
T. Greidanus 
Herbert F. Gunnison 
A. E. Hadlock 
Dr. William H. Hale 


Edward Haga?nan Hall L.H.D» 

Matthew P. Halpin 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Ernest Harvier 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin W. Hoofer, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 
Major F. L. V. Hoppin 
Walter B. Hopping 
William T. Hornaday, Sc. D. 

Roy W. Howard 
Hon. William B. Howland 
Andrew B. Humphrey 
Archer M. Huntington, Litt. D„ 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
A.E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D. C. S. 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Hon. Benjamin A. Keilv 
Cornelius G. Kolff 
George F. Kunz , Ph. D., Sc. I). 
Hans Lagerlof 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 
William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 

W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 
fames B. Mabon 


Members of the Commission 


123, 


Clarence H. Mackay 

A. E. MacKinnon 

Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 

Hon. Alrick H. Man 

William A. Marble 

Hon. Marcus M. Marks 

Edwin E. Martin 

Hon. Douglas Mathewson 

William H. Maxwell, Ph.D.,LL.D. 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 

Hon. George McAneny 

Thomas F. McAvoy 

Hon. George B. McClellan 

Hon. Charles J. McCormack 

Alfred J. McGrath 

John J. McKelvey 

S. C. Mead 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 

L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
f. Pierpont Morgan 
Henry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M. D, 

Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 
George L. Naught 
George W. Neville 
E. A. Norman 
Hon. Morgan J. O’ Brie n 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Oliphant 

Henry F. Osborn , Ph. D., LL. D. 

Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. A 7 . Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 


John B. Pine 
W. H. Pleasants 
Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 
John A. Poynton 
Frederick B. Pratt 
Hon. William A. Prendergast 
Charles W. Price 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
H. H. Raymond 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reick 
Charles E. Reid 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlesinger 
George Martin Seeley 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

Hon. John A. Sleicher 
George Carson Smith 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
Nelson S. Spencer 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
John A. Stewart 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

Hon. Charles B. Stover 


124 


Members of the Commission 


Jacob Stumpf 
Hon. Janies E. Sullivan 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 
Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Hon. Judson G. Wall 
Hon. John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Whitney Warren 


Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 

Hon. James L. Wells 

Edmund Wetmore 

Major Robert A. Widenmann 

Hon. William R. Willcox 

Arthur Williams 

Talcott Williams, L. H. D., LL.D. 

T. S. Williams 

Francis M. Wilson 

Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 

Charles B. Wolffram 
William J. Wollman 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Wool worth 
James C. Young 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


mayors of Cities (members ex-oflleio) 


Albany . Hon. Joseph W. Stevens 

Amsterdam.Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn.Hon. C. W. Brister 

Beacon.Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton.Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua.Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes . Hon. John F. Scott 

Corning.Hon. Frederick A. Ellison 

Cortlandt.Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk.Hon. Harry B. Lyon 

Elmira.Hon. Daniel Sheehan 

Fulton.Hon. John E. Boland 

Geneva.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Griffing 

Gloversville.Hon. Alden L. Henry 

Hornell.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca.Hon. John Reamer 

Jamestown.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown.Hon. Abraham Harrison 
























Members of the Commission 


125 


Kingst071 . Hon. Roscoe Irwm 

Lackawanna.Hon. Robert H. Reed 

Little Falls.Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport.Hon. George H. Brock 

Middletown.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh . Ho 7 i.John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Frederick H. Waldorf 

New York.Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

Niagara Falls..Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda.Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdens burgh . Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. Peter C. Foley 

Oneida.Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta.Hon. Frank D. Blodgett 

Oswego.Hon. David D. Long 

Plattsburgh.Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. Wm. H. Nearpass 

Poughkeepsie . Hon. William H. Frafik 

Re?tsselaer . Ho?i. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

Rome. Hon. Stewart E. Townsend 

Schenectady.Hon. George R. Lunn 

Syracuse . Hon. Edward Schoe 7 ieck 

Tonawanda.Hon. Charles Zuckmaier 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Bur 7 is 

Utica.Hon. Frank J. Baker 

Watertown.Hon. Francis M. Hugo 

Watervliet . Hon. Edwin W. Joslin 

Vo 7 ikers . H 07 t. James T. Lennon 

Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 

Athens.Hon. D. W. Travis 

Castleton.Hon. Christian Peters 

Catskill.Hon. Willis A. Haines 

Cold Spring.Hon. Charles M. Selleck 

Corinth.Hon. J. Finley Work 

Cornwall.Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 

Coxsackie.Hon. Henry A. Jordan 

Croton-on-Hudson.Hon. Charles E. Anderson 

Dobbs Ferry.Col. Franklin Q. Brown 

Fishkill.Hon. John P. Dugan 

Fort Edward.Hon. Alfred Brown 

Green Island.Hon. John McGowan 












































Members of the Commission 


126 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Mechanicville. 

North Tarrytown 

Nyack. 

Ossining. 

Peekskill. 

Piermont. 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck. 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls ... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills. 

Wappingers Falls.... 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw ... 


Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. William A. Camfield 
Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
, Hon. Thomas Nelson, J r. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 
Hon. R. S. Sherman 
, Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
Hon. William R. Palmer 
Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 


























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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

December 26, 1913 

The tenth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was called for Wed¬ 
nesday, December 24, 1913, at 2 o’clock p. m., in the library of 
the Presiding Vice-President, Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 
182 William Street, New York City, but no quorum being 
present, the meeting adjourned until Friday, December 26, 
at the same place and hour. 

Pursuant to adjournment, the Trustees met on Friday, 
December 26, 1913, at 2 o’clock p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: The Presiding Vice-President, Hon. Herman 
Ridder, presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. William 
Berri, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Gen. Howard Carroll, Com¬ 
modore Fred B. Dalzell, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. William A. 
Johnston, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Charles Steckler, and Mr. 
Arthur Williams. 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. John 
Aspegren, Mr. Robert W. Boissevain, Chancellor Elmer 
Ellsworth Brown, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Gen. George R. 
Dyer, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. William 
C. Muschenheim, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 
Hon. Edward Schoeneck, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, and Mr. 
James Speyer, and they were excused. 

infinites Amended and Approved 

The Minutes of the last meeting were amended by in¬ 
serting on page 101 among the names of those present the 
name of Mr. Robert W. Boissevain, and were approved as 
amended. 

Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
the Secretary reported that the total receipts from ten- 


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dollar subscriptions by the Trustees, in accordance with the 
resolution of May 28 (page 34), had been $ 49 °» total dis¬ 
bursements $323.13; and the balance on hand $166.87. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee. 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing.$153.80 

E. Steed, mimeographing. i-oo 

$154.80 

Appointment toy tlie Mayor 

The Secretary reported that under date of December 
4, 1913, Mayor Kline, upon recommendation of the Board 
of Trustees (page 103) had appointed Dr. Marcus Benjamin 
a member of the Commission. 

Nominated for Appointment toy tlie Mayor 

Col. Sackett, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, 
presented the following report, which was unanimously 
approved. 

December 26, 1913. 

To the Board of Trustees of the New York 

Commercial Tercentenary Commission : 

Gentlemen : 

Your Committee on Nominations respectfully recom¬ 
mends for nomination to His Honor the Mayor of New 
York for appointment as members of the Commission the 
following named gentlemen : 

Hon. Marcus M. Marks, President-elect of the Borough 
of Manhattan, 29 West 42nd Street.* 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds, President-elect of the Borough 
of Brooklyn, 317 East 17th Street, Brooklyn. 

Hon. Douglas Mathewson, President-elect of the 
Borough of the Bronx, 265 Broadway. 

Hon. Charles J. McCormack, President-elect of the 
Borough of Richmond, 155 Lafayette Avenue, Tompkins- 
ville, S. I. 

Lieut. C. J. Ahern, N. G. N. Y., 109 Hancock Street, 
Brooklyn. 

Reginald P. Bolton, engineering expert, 55 Liberty 
Street. 

William A. Boring, former President of the Architec¬ 
tural League, 32 Broadway. 


* Postoffice Addresses are New York City unless otherwise stated. 






December 26, 1913 129 

Nicholas F. Brady, to succeed his father, the late 
Anthony N. Brady, 54 Wall Street. 

Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc. D., Director of the Botanical 
Park, Bronx Borough. 

D. J. Burrell, D.D., pastor of the Marble Collegiate 
Church, 1 West 29th Street. 

Nicholas Murray Butler, LL. D., Litt D., Ph. D., 
President of Columbia University. 

C. Ward Crampton, M. D., Director of Athletic Work 
of the Board of Education, 500 Park Avenue. 

Hon. Robert W. de Forest, President of the Metro¬ 
politan Museum of Art, 30 Broad Street. 

William C. Demorest, member of American Peace 
Centennial Committee, 60 Liberty Street. 

Clarence L. Fabre, head of Clarence L. Fabre Insur¬ 
ance Co., 92 William Street. 

Terence Farley, member of Irish-American Athletic 
Club, Hall of Records. 

Henry E. Gregory, lawyer, 27 Cedar Street. 

Matthew P. Halpin, member of Board of Governors 
of N. Y. Athletic Club, 318 West 29th Street. 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison, lawyer, member of Board of 
Education, 59 Wall Street. 

Major F. L. V. Hoppin, N. G. N.Y., 777 Madison Avenue. 

William T. Hornaday, Sc. D., Director of the Zoolog¬ 
ical Park, Bronx Borough. 

Roy W. Howard, President of the United Press, Pulit¬ 
zer Building. 

Andrew B. Humphrey, Secretary of the American 
Peace Centennial Committee, 31 Nassau Street. 

Archer M. Huntington, Litt. D., President of the 
Hispanic Society of America, 1083 Fifth Avenue. 

Joseph French Johnson, D. C. S., Dean of the School 
of Commerce and Accounts, New York University, Wash¬ 
ington Square. 

Hon. Alrick H. Man, lawyer, President of Sea Beach 
Railroad, member of the Board of Education, No. 56 Wall 
Street. 

William H. Maxwell, Ph. D., LL.D., City Superinten¬ 
dent of Schools, 500 Park Avenue. 

John Jay McKelvey, lawyer, 84 William Street. 

Lewis Rutherford Morris, M. D., No. 155 West 58th 
Street. 

George L. Naught, lawyer, 100 Broadway. 

E. A. Norman, care of Edison Co., 55 Duane Street. 

John A. Poynton, care of Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st 
Street. 

Frederick B. Pratt of Pratt Institute, 215 Ryerson 
Street, Brooklyn. 


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Frederick W. Rubien, Assistant City Surveyor, 280 
Broadway. 

George Martin Seeley, mining engineer, University 
Club. 

Nelson S. Spencer, lawyer, 230 West 59th Street. 

John A. Stewart, Chairman of the American Peace 
Centennial Committee, 50 Church Street. 

Jacob Stumpf, Chairman of Registration Committee 
of the Metropolitan Association of the Athletic Union, 21 
Warren Street. 

Hon. Bartow S. Weeks, retiring Justice of the Supreme 
Court, etc., 2 Rector Street. 

Talcott Williams, L. H. D., LL.D., head of the School 
of Journalism, Columbia University. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Henry W. Sackett, Chairman 
Howard Carroll 
E. H. Hall 

Committee 

Contract with Mr. Stoddard 

The Secretary reported that pursuant to the action of 
the Trustees on November 26, 1913, (pages 106-107), the 
Committee consisting of Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Hon. N. 
Taylor Phillips, Col. Henry W. Sackett and the Executive 
Officers had agreed upon a contract with Mr. A. H. Stod¬ 
dard, to the effect that the Commission engages Mr. Stod¬ 
dard as Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 
at a salary of $625 a month beginning December 1, 1913, 
and authorized expenses; Mr. Stoddard agreeing to devote 
his whole time faithfully to the service of the Commission, 
acting only in its name and under its instructions, in 
securing exhibitions of the material resources of the various 
States of the Union, and supervising their installation, con¬ 
duct and removal, in the work of securing, arranging and 
supervising the street parades containing floats, and in the 
performance of such other duties as may be imposed on 
him by the Commission. The agreement is terminable at 
the pleasure of the Commission. 

A contract embodying the agreement had been 
approved as to form by the Committee on Law and Legis¬ 
lation and was in the hands of the President for execution. 

The action of the Committee on the arrangement with 
Mr. Stoddard was approved. 


December 26, 1913 


131 


Arranements for Commercial Fxliit>it§ 

The Secretary reported that Mr. Stoddard was actively 
at work gathering the names of commercial organizations 
in the various States and already had the names and 
addresses of about 5,000. A pamphlet had been printed 
containing the rules governing the exhibits, copies of 
which were laid before the Trustees. A letter had been 
formulated inviting the local communities throughout the 
United States to participate in the celebration by means 
of exhibits and was awaiting the approval of the President 
before being sent out. 

Time of Local Fc§ttvals Changed 

A communication dated December 23 from Hon. 
William J. Lee, Chairman of the Committee on Local 
Festivals, suggesting that the children’s festivals and local 
fiestas by different nationalities in New York City be con¬ 
ducted during the months of June, July and August, 
instead of September as provided in the report! of the 
Plan and Scope Committee (pages 61 and 74), was read. 

The change recommended was approved. 

Financial Resources 

Mr* Ridder stated that he had made preliminary 
arrangements for a conference with the members of the 
new Board of Estimate and Apportionment early in Janu¬ 
ary with a view to securing an appropriation by the City 
for the Celebration. 

In the discussion which ensued, Gen. Carroll expressed 
the view that the appropriation would be facilitated by 
the assurance that the Commission would erect a perma¬ 
nent memorial of the Celebration. 

Mr. Berri spoke of the importance of celebrating the 
Panama Canal opening as a feature of the program. On 
account of the intimate relation of that event to the com¬ 
merce of New York he thought that too much emphasis 
could not be laid on it. He also suggested that an effort 
be made to have the Federal goverment install on Gover¬ 
nor’s Island or at some other convenient place in the city 
the great model of the Panama Canal which it .had at 
the Jamestown Exposition. 


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Proposed Amendment of By-Laws 

Col. Sackett gave notice that at the next meeting of 
the Trustees he would move to amend section five of article 
one of the By-laws (page 15), so as to reduce the quorum 
of the Trustees from fifteen to ten. The section, as pro¬ 
posed to be amended, will read as follows: 

“ Section 5. Quorum. At meetings of the Trustees 
ten shall constitute a quorum, and at meetings of the Com¬ 
mission the members who are present shall constitute a 
quorum.” 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 

Appointment of Committees 

Under date of January 22, 1914, the President an¬ 
nounces the appointment of the Committees named on 
pages 111-120 preceding. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Official Minutes 


OF 


The N ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
January 28 , 1914 











134 


The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


OFFICERS 


President 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Treasurer 


Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 




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Minutes of 

Trust ees Meeting 

January 28, 1914 

The eleventh meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday, January 28, 1914, 
at 2 o’clock p.m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: The President, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry Lawrence 
Bogert, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Gen. Howard 
Carroll, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Commodore Fred B. 
Dalzell, Mr. Henry Russell Drowne, Mr. Samuel W. Fair- 
child, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. William A. Johnston, Dr. 
George Frederick Kunz, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Hon. William 
J. Lee, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Hon. Her¬ 
man Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. 
Spratt, and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman.) 

Absentees Exeused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union 
N. Bethell, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Gen. George R. Dyer, Dr. John 
H. Finley, Mr. C. H. Fuller, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, Mr. 
Ernest Harvier, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, 
Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Hon. Robert 
A. C. Smith, Mr. James Speyer, and Mr. Theodore N. Vail, 
and they were excused. 

Minnies Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been printed 
and sent to all the members of the Commission, were ap¬ 
proved. 


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Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Company, Treas¬ 
urer, the Secretary presented the following report of the 
condition of the Subscription Fund on January 28, 1914 : 


DEBIT 

Receipts previously reported.$490.00 

Received from Tiffany & Co. 100.00 

Total receipts.$590.00 

CREDIT 

Disbursements previously reported .. $323.13 

5. Polhemus Printing Co. printing.. 153.80 

6. E. Steed, mimeographing . t.oo 477-93 

Balance on hand Jan. 28, 1914 . $112.07 

The report was received. 


General Finaneial Affairs 

Supplementing the foregoing report, the Secretary 
stated that the following unpaid obligations had been in¬ 
curred : 

On account of headquarters for stenogra¬ 
pher, printing, stationery, postage, etc., 

five months.$ 270.89 

On account of Commercial Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee, for printing, postage and clerical 
help sending out 10,000 invitations to 

exhibit. 92°. 75 

$1,191.04 

In addition to the foregoing there was the accrued and 
unpaid salary of the Director of Commercial Exhibits at 
the rate of $625 a month for December and January, pay¬ 
able when funds were available. 

The Secretary had rented one office at the rate of $30 
a month from January 1 in addition to those of which the 
Commission has the free use, and had engaged one steno¬ 
grapher at the rate of $15 a week. 

The report was received. 

Mr. Ridder said that arrangements had been made for 
a conference on Monday, February 2, between the Mayor, 
the Board of Estimate, and a few members of the Commis¬ 
sion, at which the subject of an appropriation by the City 
for the celebration would be considered. 












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By-laws Amended as to (Quorum 

Pursuant to notice given at the last meeting, a copy of 
which had been sent to all the Trustees, the Board con¬ 
sidered the amendment of section 5 of article I of the By¬ 
laws proposing to reduce the quorum at Trustees’ meetings 
from 15 to 10; and it was unanimously voted to amend the 
section so that it should read as follows: 

“ Section 5. Quorum. At meetings of the Trustees ten 
shall constitute a quorum, and at meetings of the Commis¬ 
sion the members who are present shall constitute a 
quorum.” 

Appointments l>y tlic Mayor 

A communication from Hon. John Purroy Mitchel, 
Mayor of New York, dated January 15, 1914, appointing as 
members of the Commission the gentlemen nominated to 
him by the Trustees at their last meeting (pages 128 to 130), 
was read, and the Secretary was directed to enroll their 
names on the Commission. 


Nominated to Mayor for Appointment 

The Nominating Committe reported through the Sec¬ 
retary, recommending that the following named gentlemen 
be nominated to His Honor the Mayor for appointment on 
the Commission: 

Hon. Ardolph L. Kline, ex-Mayor of New York. 

Charles N. Chadwick, Commissioner of Water Supply, 
J3 Park Row. 

Hon. H. H. Curran, Chairman of Finance Committee 
of Board of Aldermen, City Hall. 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling, member of the Board of 
Aldermen, City Hall; 

Hon. William B. Ellison, counsellor-at-law, 165 Broad¬ 
way; 

Nelson P. Lewis, consulting engineer of the Board of 
Estimate, 51 Chambers Street; 

William B. Seldon, member of Recreation Parks and 
Play-grounds Committee of the Metropolitan Association 
of the A. A. U., New York County Court House; 

Hon. Cabot Ward, President of the Park Commission, 
Central Park. 

The report was approved. 


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Nominations Referred to Committee 

Mr. Vanderbilt proposed Hon. Frank L. Polk, Corpor¬ 
ation Counsel; Mr. Reid proposed Hon. William W. Niles, 
President of the North Side Board of Trade; and Mr. Dal- 
zell proposed Mr. H. B. Claflin, President of the Chamber 
of Commerce of the State of New York, for membership on 
the Commission. 

Referred to the Committee on Nominations. 

Resignations Accepted 

Letters were read from Mr. William A. Camp, Dr. 
William T. Hornaday, Mr. Edwin E. Martin and Mr. J. P. 
Morgan tendering their resignations as members of the 
Commission on account of pressure of other affairs, and 
they were accepted with regret. 

Trustees Elected 

The following Chairmen of Committes were unani¬ 
mously elected members of the Board of Trustees, making 
the total number 89: 

Hon. John. D. Crimmins, Chairman of the Committee 
on Religious Services; 

Mr. Henry Russell Drowne, Chairman of the Com¬ 
mittee on Medals and Badges; 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison, Chairman of the Committee 
on Contracts; 

Hon. William B. Howland, Chairman of the Committee 
on Peace Centennial; 

The Mayor of Binghamton, Chairman of the Southern 
New York Committee; 

The Mayor of Watertown, Chairman of the Northern 
New York Committee (in place of the Mayor of Ogdens- 
burg, declined.) 

Ex=OIHclo Changes In Commission 

The Secretary reported the following changes in the 
ex-officio membership of the Commission: 

Hon. John Purrov Mitchel succeeds Hon. Ardolph L. 
Kline as Mayor of New York; 

Hon. Joseph W. Stevens succeeds Hon. James B. Mc- 
Ewan as Mayor of Albany; 

Hon. C. W. Brister succeeds Hon. Thomas H. O’Neill 
as Mayor of Auburn. 


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Committee Reports 

The Committees were then called in alphabetical order 
and the Chairmen present made brief reports. More extend¬ 
ed reports were presented by the Committee on Commercial 
Exhibits, Flag and Poster, Memorials, Panama Canal, and 
Museum Exhibits, as follows: 

Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Committee on 
Commercial Exhibits, read the following report: 

To Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission. 

Gentlemen:— 

Your Committee on “Commercial Exhibits” have held 
weekly meetings since the formation of the Committee. 

We have mailed 10,000 invitations to Governors, 
Mayors, Counties, municipalities, manufacturers, mer¬ 
chants, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, etc., re¬ 
questing participation in the coming exhibitions. A num¬ 
ber of favorable replies have already been received, and 
prospects for very successful exhibitions are flattering. 

It is designed to hold five exhibitions. 


First opens 

Mon., June 8th; 

closes Sat., 

June 20th 

Second “ 

Sat, “ 27th; 

<< 

44 

July nth 

Third “ 

“ July 18th; 

u 

44 

Aug. 1 st 

Fourth “ 

“ Aug. 8th; 

(( 

44 

“ 22nd 

Fifth “ 

“ “ 29th; 

u 

4i 

Sept. 12th 


Each exhibition to be for a different section of the United 
States. For these sectional exhibitions an option has been 
had from the Grand Central Palace, the option expiring 
February 6th, 1914, at which date contract is to be entered 
into, if we avail ourselves of the reduced price of 3 cents 
per square foot, no charge being made for time that the 
Palace is used for installations and clearances of the differ¬ 
ent exhibitions. 

It is designed to lay out the main floor in replica of 
the streets of “old New York,” the main entrance to be 
represented by a stockade similar to that which was used 
300 years ago, with a burgher guarding the entrance gate. 
Negotiations are under way with Mr. Rodman Wanamaker 
and Dr. Joseph K. Dixon of the American Indian Memorial 
Association with a view of having a number of Indians in 
attendance during the entire time of the exhibition to illus¬ 
trate the original trading between the Indians and the 
Dutch. After one has been admitted the streets of “ Old 
New York ” will be seen, begining with the Dutch period, 


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140 

running through that of the English, then the Colonial, and 
lastly the present appearance of some of the streets. The 
rear of the main floor to have a magnificent profile view of 
Manhattan, showing the sky-scrapers from the Hudson 
River, the illumination of these buildings to be had in such 
a manner as to make a very striking electrical effect when 
the night scene is shown. A number of the old firms and 
corporations in this city, who have been in business 50, 75 
and 100 years, have signified their intention of acquiring 
space, expecting to show the commercial growth of their 
respective industries by having scenic booths of their estab¬ 
lishments in the different periods of their existence. 

Several sub-committees have been appointed, who are 
actively engaged in promoting the exhibitions and securing 
the loan of prints and paintings of “ Old New York.” 

In order to successfully carry out all the requirements 
of the celebration, it is extremely important that publicity 
be had in the papers and periodicals of the country, as we 
find that many persons who have received invitations to 
participate, claim that they had no knowledge of the cele¬ 
bration, and considerable time is required to explain to 
these people the plan and scope as outlined by the Com¬ 
mission. Too much stress cannot be put upon the fact 
that publicity to a large extent should be had in all quar¬ 
ters in order to facilitate matters, as the time is short in 
which to complete all the necessary details. 

It is also important that action be had in regard to 
entering into the contract for the Grand Central Palace on 
February 6th, and your Board is asked to authorize the 
proper officials to consumate the lease. 

Copies of the option for the Grand Central Palace and 
of the circular sent out by the Committee hereunto attached, 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Official Flag Adopted 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Committee on Flag and 
Poster, presented a full-sized bunting flag embodying the 
design recommended by his committee and technically 
described as follows: 

The flag consists of three equal vertical bars, Nassau 
blue, white and Nassau orange, the blue bar at the staff. In 
the center of the white bar, the coat-of-arms. 

Charge: Upon a shield argent a marine view; in base 
a Dutch merchant vessel under sail on a body of water all 
proper ; sky argent and azure. 

Crest: On a wreath azure and argent a Dutch wind¬ 
mill proper. 


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141 

Supporters : On a quasi-compartment formed by the 
extension of the ribbon or scroll : Dexter: A Dutch mer¬ 
chantman proper; Dutch hat proper; vested vert; about the 
waist a belt gules; hose and shoes in sable; buckles on 
shoes or; in the dexter hand a charter scroll argent; the 
sinister arm embowed, hand supporting shield at the dex¬ 
ter chief point. Sinister : A North American Indian proper; 
hair dressed and decorated with feathers; about the waist 
skins proper; feet moccasoned proper; in the sinister hand 
a pelt; the dexter arm embowed, hand supporting the shield 
at the sinister chief point. 

Motto: Below the shield on a scroll argent, azure and 
or 1614-1914. 

Mr. Ames explained that the shades of Nassau blue 
and Nassau orange were used by the Netherlands in 1614 
when the first charters for trading to New Netherland were 
granted. The vertical arrangement of colors was adopted, 
partly to give the flag individuality, and partly because 
the vertical arrangement of flag colors was first adopted 
by the City of Amsterdam in 1602 when the colors were 
red, black and red. The windmill of the crest is of the type 
used in the Netherlands and New Netherland, and suggests 
the conventionalized windmills which were in the coats-of- 
arms of Amsterdam and New Amsterdam. 

The design was unanimously adopted, and the Com¬ 
mittee on Flag and Poster, with the aid of the Committee 
on Law and Legislation, was authorized to secure the 
necessary legal protection of the design from the United 
States Government. 

Mr. Ames said that the Committee had no poster de¬ 
sign to recommend; but the Committee was of the opinion 
that the same plan should be followed as was followed by 
the Hudson-Fulton Commission so successfully, namely, 
that the Commission should appropriate $500 for a suitable 
design to be prepared by one of the best available artists. 

Owing to the lack of funds, the recommendation was 
laid on the table. 

Permanent Memorials 

Dr. Hooper, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
recapitulated the suggestions which had been made for 
one or more permanent memorials, including a water-gate, 
a series of industrial and commercial museums, a museum 


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of safety, commercial scholarships, etc. With respect to 
the first of these, two informal conferences had been held 
during the past week between members of the Memorials 
Committee of this Commission and members of the Robert 
Fulton National Water-Gate Association with a view to 
ascertaining if there could be effective co-operation between 
that Association and this Commission for the purpose of 
forwarding the erection of the water-gate. Mr. Vanderbilt, 
who was President of both bodies, presided at the confer¬ 
ences. The status of the project of the Robert Fulton 
National Water-Gate Association was briefly as follows : 
The Association had adopted a plan for a water-gate ex¬ 
tending along the Hudson River water-front from 109th 
Street to mth Street. It was estimated that the work as a 
whole would cost about $5,000,000 of which amount the As¬ 
sociation hoped to secure $1,000,000 from the United States, 
$1,000,000 from the State of New York, $1,000,000 from 
the City of New York, and $2,000,000 from subscriptions. 
Pennsylvania, the birth-place of Fulton, was expected 
to make a liberal contribution. The site had already been 
secured by necessary action by the New York State and 
City authorities. The design had been approved by con¬ 
noisseurs of architecture. Fifty thousand dollars had al¬ 
ready been spent on the preliminary expenses. It was an 
heroic piece of work which would give distinction to the 
celebration. Whether it was the best form of a memorial 
for this Commission, or whether this and something else 
also might be adopted was a question to be considered. 
Perhaps some other form of memorial might be of more 
immediate utilitarian value, but nothing could be more 
appropriate than a water-gate. There appeared to be no 
reason why the Commission and the Robert Fulton 
National Water Gate Association could not cooperate; but 
until this preliminary question was settled, he had not 
called together his whole Committee. He therefore re¬ 
ported progress. 

Mr. Vanderbilt said he thought there was a possibility 
of using the water-gate as the permanent memorial, and he 
invited suggestions on the subject. 

Mr. Ridder thought it would be appropriate for the 


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Trustees to express themselves in favor of co-operation in 
the water-gate project. It was a very worthy undertaking. 
It was mortifying to be obliged to receive official visitors on 
a coal dock. He moved that the Committee be requested 
to present a resolution at the next meeting endorsing the 
water-gate. Carried. 

Mr. Lee said that the late Park Commissioner had 
begun the filling in of the Riverside Park water-front and 
that it had been proposed to have a stadium built in con- 
nectionwith the water-gate. 

Mr. Vanderbilt said that the Robert Fulton National 
Water-Gate Association had secured a change in the loca¬ 
tion of the water-gate so as not to interfere with the stadium. 

Museum Exhibits 

Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the Committee on Museum 
Exhibits, said that as soon as the Committee knew how 
much money it could have, it could arrange to have a series 
of twenty-five or thirty exhibitions by art, scientific and 
historical museums, similar to those of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration. Such a series could be had at an expense of 
$25,000. 

Panama Canal Models 

The Secretary read correspondence which Mr. Shonts, 
Chairman of the Panama Canal Committee, had had with 
the Secretary of War and the Isthmian Canal Commission 
concerning the exhibition of a model of the Panama Canal 
at New York. The Isthmian Canal Commission has two 
models, one of the Pedro Miguel Locks and one of the 
Gatun Dam, Locks and Spillway, which can be loaned 
under certain conditions. The War Department has in 
storage in Washington a relief map which, however, is not 
up to date. The Pan-American Union has a replica of it 
with later corrections. Two replicas were also made of the 
relief map for the Senate and House of Representatives 
and are in charge of the Superintendent of the Capitol. 
The Panama Canal Exhibition Co. in Washington has made 
several satisfactory models, some working models, which 
have been placed on exhibition throughout the country. 


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The Government model at the Jamestown exposition was 
120 feet long and 60 feet wide and was constructed of 
cement laid in the ground, and was necessarily abandoned 
at the close of the exposition. 

There being no further business, the meeting was ad¬ 
journed. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Official Minutes 


OF 


TheN ew York Commercial 


Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
February 25 , 1914 




146 


The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


OFFICERS 


President 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 


Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 


Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 

Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 




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Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

February 25, 1914 

The twelfth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William 

Street, New York City, on Wednesday, February 25, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 


Roll Call 

Present: The President, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. John Aspegren, 
Mr. Henry Lawrence Bogert, Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. 
Robert Grier Cooke, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Mr. 
Henry Russell Drowne, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Hon. Robert L. Harrison, Dr. Franklin W. 
Hooper, Mr. William A. Johnston, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, 
Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Hon. 
William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. William C. 
Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Alton B. Parker, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward 
P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt and Mr. Arthur 
Williams. 


Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. William 
Berri, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Hon. Thomas W. 
Churchill, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Gen. George R. Dyer, 
Dr. John Huston Finley, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Mr. Ernest 
Harvier, Hon. William B. Howland, Dr. Henry Fairfield 
Osborn, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Robert A. C. Smith, Mr. Willard 
U. Taylor, and Mr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were ex¬ 
cused. 


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Minutes Corrected and Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting were corrected by 
changing the number of Trustees stated in line 18, page 
138, from 89 to 93, and as corrected were approved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & 
Co., the Secretary reported the condition of the Treasury 
the same as stated in the last report (page 136) showing a 
cash balance of $112.07. 

The report was received. 

Rills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee : 


Elbert Latham, lettering office door. $ 5*44 

Library Bureau, index cards. 7.50 

E. Steed, mimeographing. 1.75 

Letters Co., multigraphing. 10.65 

De-fi Manufacturing Co., carbon. 3.50 

Miss J. A. Cooke, mimeographing. 1.75 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 79 - 5 ° 


$110.09 

The Secretary stated that after the payment of the 
foregoing, there would remain unpaid bills of the Polhemus 
Printing Co. for printing chiefly for headquarters and the 
Commercial Exhibits Committee, amounting to $227.80 ; 
advances by the Secretary for stenographer, office rent and 
miscellaneous expenses for headquarters $349.48 ; expenses 
on account of the Commercial Exhibits Committee for 
postage, clerical help, etc., amounting to $797 ; and the 
unpaid salary of the Director of Commercial Exhibits and 
Pageantry at $625 a month for December, January and 
February, payable when funds are available. 

Appointments by tlie Mayor 

The Secretary reported that upon the recommendation 
of the Trustees at their last meeting, His Honor the Mayor 
had, under date of February 6, 1914, appointed Hon. 










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February 25, 1914 

Ardolph L. Kline, Hon. Henry H. Curran, Hon. Frank L. 
Dowling, Hon. William B. Ellison, Mr. Nelson P. Lewis 
and Mr. William B. Seldon as members of the Commission. 


Changes I11 Membership 

The Secretary reported the following changes in the 
ex-officio membership of the Commission, due to changes 
in the offices of Mayor: 


City 
Cohoes 
Corning 
Dunkirk 
Elmira 
Fulton 
Gloversville 
Ithaca 
Johnstown 
Kingston 
Lackawanna 
New Rochelle 
Olean 
Oneonta 
Oswego 
Port Jervis 
Poughkeepsie 
Rome 

Schenectady 
Syracuse 
Tona wanda 
Utica 

Watertown 


Former Mayor 

Hon. James E. Scott Hon. 
Hon. Frederick A. Ellison Hon. 
Hon. Harry B. Lyon Hon. 
Hon. Daniel Sheehan Hon. 
Hon. John E. Boland Hon, 
Hon. Alden L. Henry Hon. 
Hon. John Reamer Hon. 

Hon. Abraham Harrison Hon. 
Hon. Roscoe Irwin Hon. 

Hon. Robert H. Reed Hon. 
Hon. Frederick H.Waldorf Hon. 
Hon. Peter C. Foley Hon. 
Hon. Frank D.Blodgett Hon. 
Hon. David D. Long Hon. 
Hon. Wm. H. Nearpass Hon. 
Hon. Wm. H. Frank Hon. 
Hon. StewartE.Townsend Hon. 
Hon. George R. Lunn Hon. 
Hon. Edward Schoeneck Hon. 
Hon. Chas. Zuckmaier Hon. 
Hon. Frank J. Baker Hon. 
Hon. Francis M. Hugo Hon. 


Present Mayor 
James S. Calkins 
Lewis N. Lattin 
J. T. Sullivan 
Harry N. Hoffman 
Frank E. Fox 

G. W. Schermerhorn 
Thomas Tree 
Clarence W. Smith 
Palmer Canfield, Jr. 
John I. Sidmey 
Edw. Stetson Griffing 
W. H. Simpson 
Joseph S. Lunn 
Thos. F. Hennessey 
Frank Lybolt 
Daniel W. Willen 

H. C. Midlam 

J. Teller Schoolcraft 
Louis Will 
Albert J. Cordes 
James D. Smith 
Isaac R. Breen 


Village 

Athens 


Former President 
Hon. D. W. Travis 


Present President 
Hon. Wm. M. Collier 


The resignation of Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip on account 
of pressure of other affairs was accepted with regret. 


Changes in Board of Trustees 

The resignation of Mr. James B. Mabon as a member 
of the Board of Trustees was accepted with regret. 

Hon. R. Ross Appleton was elected as member of the 

Board. 


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150 


Changes in Committees 

The President announced the appointment of Hon. R. 
Ross Appleton, President of the Security Bank of New 
York, as Chairman of the Finance Committee. 

The Secretary reported various changes in the mem¬ 
bership of committees which will be mads in the next 
printed list. 

Nominated to tlie Mayor for Appointment 

Upon the suggestion of the Committee on Memorials, 
the Nominating Committee recommended the following 
named officers and directors of the Robert Fulton Memorial 
Water Gate Association for nomination to His Honor the 
Mayor for appointment as members of this Commission. 

Charles B. Alexander, lawyer, 165 Broadway. 

John D. Archbold, capitalist, 26 Broadway. 

Edward P. Bates, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Edward J. Berwind, capitalist, 1 Broadway. 

Andrew F. Burleigh, 195 Broadway. 

Herman H. Cammann, real estate, 84 William Street. 

Charles A. Coffin, financier, 30 Church Street. 

Edward C. Converse, capitalist, 14 Wall Street. 

William E. Corey, capitalist, 14 Wall Street. 

Richard Delafield, banker, 214 Broadway. 

Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, D.D., Fishkill, N. Y. 

R. Fulton Cutting, LL.D., financier, 32 Nassau Street 

H. W. Dearborn, Sec’y Fulton Water Gate Associa¬ 
tion, 3 Park Row. 

Edward A. Drake, 24 State Street. 

Amos F. Eno, 13 South William Street 

His Eminence John Cardinal Farley, 452 Madison 
Avenue. 

Henry C. Frick, manufacturer, 640 Fifth Avenue. 

James Gayley, manufacturer, 71 Broadway. 

Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D., 7 Gramercy Park. 

Isaac Guggenheim, capitalist, 165 Broadway. 

Murray Guggenheim, capitalist, 998 Fifth Avenue. 

Major Isaac A. Hall, Paterson, N. J. 

Hon. John Hays Hammond, mining engineer, 71 
Broadway. 

Col. H. O. S. Heistand, U. S. A., Adj. General’s Office, 
Washington, D. C. 

Lansing C. Holden, architect, 103 Park Avenue. 


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Hon. Charles E. Hughes, U. S. Supreme Court, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

Arthur Curtiss James, merchant, 99 John Street. 
Edward Lauterbach, LL. D., lawyer, 22 William Street. 
Robert Fulton Ludlow, artist, Claverack, N. Y. 

Rev. H. Pereira Mendes, D.D., 99 Central Park West. 
John E. Parsons, lawyer, 30 East 36th Street. 

William Barclay Parsons, LL.D., consulting engineer, 
60 Wall Street. 

A. A. Raven, 49 Wall Street. 

Norman B. Ream, capitalist, 24 Broad Street. 

Daniel G. Reid, financier, 14 Wall Street. 

George L. Rives, LL.D., lawyer, 34 Nassau Street. 
Rev. Spencer S. Roche, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

F. Augustus Schermerhorn, capitalist, 25 Liberty Street. 
Walter Scott, 495 Broadway. 

Col. John L. Shepherd, 15 Maiden Lane. 

Hon. Wm. Rhinelander Stewart, 31 Nassau Street. 
Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D.D., LL.D., Rector of St. 
Thomas’ Church, 1 West 53rd Street. 

Melville E. Stone, Associated Press, 195 Broadway. 
Henry W. Taft, lawyer, 40 Wall Street. 

Col. Robert M. Thompson, financier, 43 Exchange 
Place. 

Samuel Untermever, lawyer, 37 Wall Street. 

Henry Walters, Baltimore, Md. 

George Westinghouse, Ph.D., inventor, manufacturer, 
care of Equitable Life Assurance Soc’y, 165 Broadway. 

W. H. Wiley, East Orange, N. J. 

Mr. John Claflin, President of the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce of the State of New York was also nominated for 
appointment. 


Annual Report 

The Secretary stated that he had on that day placed 
in the hands of the President for revision or approval a 
draft of the First Annual Report of the Commission as re¬ 
quired by law. The report proper was a formal statement 
of the organization, composition and plans of the Com¬ 
mission. Appended thereto was a brief history of the 
events between Hudson’s voyage in 1609 and the perma¬ 
nent settlement of New Amsterdam in 1626, showing the 
main facts connected with the beginning of the commerce 


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of New York. Upon transmission to the Legislature, the 
State will print and furnish to the Commission 500 copies; 
but additional copies can be printed at the same time at 
the Commission’s expense at relatively small cost, as the 
matter will then be in type. He suggested the printing of 
a few thousand extra copies for general distribution, as 
was done by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
with a similar pamphlet. 

The printing of the extra copies was authorized as 
suggested. 


Commercial Exhibits 

The President then called for reports from committees 
in alphabetical order. 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Committee 
on Commercial Exhibits., presented the following : 

To the Board of Trustees of the New York Commercial 

Tercentenary Commission. 

Gentlemen :— 

The “ Commercial Exhibits” Committee beg leave to 
report that since your last meeting 2,000 additional invita¬ 
tions have been sent to County Officials, Municipalities, 
Manufacturers, Merchants and Chambers of Commerce, 
making 12,000 invitations mailed to date. Several hundred 
replies to these invitations have been received, showing 
considerable interest in the commercial exhibits and pa¬ 
geants. A number of letters received' are herewith sub¬ 
mitted. 

The special invitation which is to be sent to the Gov¬ 
ernors and Mayors of larger cities, which is to be signed by 
President Vanderbilt and Mayor Mitchel, has been pre¬ 
pared, and when the proper signatures are had, which we 
trust will be the case in a few days, these will be mailed. 

Your committee respectfully requests that the Board 
at this meeting provide sufficient funds to carry on the 
work of solicitation which has been so favorably started, 
and in order to do this it will be necessary to have a fund 
of at least $1,000 for the present for the Director of Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits and Pageants, Capt. A. H. Stoddard, and 
his staff, until the finances of the Commission are arranged 
for. It is expected that the expenditure of this Committee 
will all be returned to the Commission by receipts from 
the sale of space, etc. 


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Letters are herewith submitted in regard to an exhibit 
by the City of New York. At the present time Mayor 
Mitchel is at the head of the Committee that is now pre¬ 
paring an immense municipal exhibit to be placed in the 
Panama-Pacific Exhibition to be held in San Francisco in 
1915. We believe that this municipal exbibit should be 
placed in the exhibitions to be held in New York this sum¬ 
mer, in order that publicity may be given to the very com¬ 
prehensive displays in New York City before its removal 
to San Francisco. Ample time would be had to ship it to 
the Panama-Pacific Exhibition after the close of the ex¬ 
hibitions here. We would suggest that this Board author¬ 
ize a special invitation to be prepared and sent to the City 
of New York, with the end in view of securing this exhibit. 

The splendid article in the press during the last few 
days is giving wide-spread publicity to the coming cele¬ 
bration, and we believe will very materially help in imme¬ 
diately closing up with a number of industries for space in 
the coming exhibitions. The automobile interests have 
taken up the matter of holding one of the largest automo¬ 
bile parades ever held in this City, and expect to illustrate 
in a very elaborate way the growth and scope of the auto¬ 
mobile industry. 

The option for a lease for the Grand Central Palace 
having expired February 6, 1914, your Committee has 
secured an extension until Monday, March 2d, 1914. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. P. V. Ritter, 

Chairman. 

The report was received and ordered on file ; but owing 
to lack of funds the appropriation asked for was deferred. 


Educational Institutions 

In behalf of Chancellor Brown, Chairman of the Com¬ 
mittee on Educational Institutions, the Secretary reported 
that the Chairman had devoted a considerable amount of 
time to the consideration of the work of that committee 
and had called a meeting to be held on March 11 to crys- 
talize its plans. The prospects were that the educational 
part of the celebration would be very important and ex¬ 
tensive. 

In this connection, the Secretary reported that on 
February 20 Assemblyman VanName had introduced in 


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the Legislature a bill (Assembly introductory No. 739) 
“ to authorize and empower the City of New York to estab¬ 
lish and maintain a College of Commerce and Administra¬ 
tion and Museum of Commerce and Civics and to provide 
a site therefor.” This was the institution heretofore re¬ 
ferred to in these proceedings by Dr. Finley. The bill 
recites that the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New 
York has offered to erect a building for the above-named 
purpose at a cost to it of not more than $500,000, and to 
furnish moneys up to $200,000 for installation and equip¬ 
ment, provided the City of New York will furnish the site 
and provide for the maintenance of the institution. It 
therefore authorizes the City to provide the site, and also 
authorizes the Trustees of the College of the City of New 
York, if they wish, to convey for this purpose the City 
College lands on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue 
and 23rd Street. 

Flag and Poster 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Flag and Poster Com¬ 
mittee, filed with the Secretary the certificate of copyright 
protecting the coat of arms of the official flag ; and also a 
colored design of the flag, with the request that the Com¬ 
mittee on Law and Legislation be requested to take 
the necessary steps to protect the flag by United States 
patent. 

The report was received and the Committee on Law 
and Legislation authorized to proceed as requested. 

Historical meeting Set for march 27 

In the absence of Mr. Hoffman, Chairman of the Com¬ 
mittee on Historical Meetings, and after conference with 
Gen. Carroll who had proposed the opening religious meet¬ 
ing, the Secretary recommended that the plan of the cele¬ 
bration be changed by opening it with an historical meeting 
on Friday, March 27, the 300th anniversary of the granting 
of the first charter by the State General of the United 
Netherlands, the meeting to include a prayer, but the chief 
religious observances to be left to the various denomina- 


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tions, to be conducted in their respective houses of worship 
on Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29. 

The change was approved and in the Chairman’s 
absence from town, the Secretary was authorized to make 
the necessary arrangements for the meeting. 

Design of Official medal Adopted 

Mr. Drowne, Chairman of the Medal and Badge Com¬ 
mittee, submitted a design for the official medal prepared 
by Tiffany & Co. The medal is 77 millimetres (three 
inches) in diameter. On the obverse is a representation of 
the first trading by the Dutch with the Indians on Man¬ 
hattan Island, with the river and a ship of the period in the 
background, and the inscription “ The Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary of New York. 1614-1914.” The reverse shows 
a view of New York of to-day from the river-front, with a 
modern steamship in the foreground. At the top are three 
coats-af-arms, namely, those of New Amsterdam of the 
Dutch period, New York City of the English period, and 
New York City of the American period. At the bottom is 
the coat-of-arms of the State of New York. 

The cost of the design, model and dies will be $500. 
The medal can be produced in bronze for $2.50 each, in 
silver for $8.00 and in gold for $185.00. Reduced sizes can 
be produced at less cost. If reduced to the size of a half 
dollar, the United States mint will furnish the metal (cop¬ 
per, etc.,) and strike them in lots of 1,000 for $15.00 and 
smaller sizes in proportion. In this way an artistic souvenir 
can be provided at a very reasonable cost. The three-inch 
medals in gold can be used for presentation to distin¬ 
guished persons ; the silver medals for subscription by 
members of the Commission, and the bronze medals for 
members and the public ; while the smaller medals can be 
placed on sale for the general public. 

It is proposed to use the obverse design for the medal¬ 
lion of the official badge, to be suspended from a ribbon of 
Nassau blue, white and Nassau orange, the official colors 
of the Commission. 


Minutes of Trustees 



The Committee asked the Board to authorize the ex¬ 
ecution of the dies by Tiffany & Co., as it would require a 
month or two to cut them. 

Dr. Kunz of the Committee recommended that the 
medals for members of the Commission be distinguished 
by having their individual names struck in raised letters 
on their respective medals. This would involve an extra cost 
for the cutting of the insert die for each name, but it would 
add to the value of the medal by making each one unique. 
The names would be struck, not engraved. He also recom¬ 
mended that if satisfactory arrangements could be made 
with the American Numismatic Society for its approval of 
the medal as an example of numismatic art, its seal in 
miniature be added to the design. 

It was voted that the design of the medal be approved; 
that Doctor Kunz be authorized to secure a copyright of 
the design in the name of the Commission; that Tiffany & 
Co., be authorized to cut the dies; that the imprint of the 
American Numismatic Society be added if satisfactory 
arrangements can be made; and that the Committee be 
authorized to issue a circular to the members of the Com¬ 
mission inviting them to subscribe for the medal. 

Commemorative Postage Stamp 

Upon the suggestion of Dr. Kunz, the Committee was 
also authorized to communicate to the Postmaster General 
of the United States the request of the Commission that 
he cause a commemorative two-cent postage stamp to be 
issued. 


Plan of Permanent Memorial Approved 

Dr. Hooper, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
presented the following report: 

To the Board of Trustees, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission. 
Gentlemen: 

On behalf of the Committee on Permanent Memorials 
I beg leave to report that at a meeting of the Committee 
held on February 4th, it took into consideration all of the 
recommendations and suggestions that have been made to 
the Commission and the Committee with regard to Perma- 


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nent Memorials to be established in connection with the 
Commercial Tercentenary Celebration. These suggestions 
were: A Series of Industrial Museums; a Water Gate with 
Reception Hall and Nautical Museum; a Reviewing Stand; 
a large Auditorium; a Museum of Safety Devices, and 
Fellowships in connection with colleges and universi¬ 
ties, such Fellowships to be awarded to men well qualified 
to study commercial conditions in this country and other 
countries, and to make reports on the same. 

Your Committee unanimously recommends that the 
Permanent Memorial to be established be a combination 
in one plan and structure of several of the separate plans 
and suggestions that have been made, namely—the Water 
Gate, the Reception Hall, a Nautical Museum, a Commer¬ 
cial Museum—these two Museums to be a part of a series 
of Industrial Museums to be distributed later through the 
City or State of New York—a large Auditorium and a 
Reviewing Stand. 

The site which has be provided, by Act of Legislation, 
for the Water Gate, extending from the southerly line of 
West 109th Street to the northerly line of West 111th 
Street, and from the western side of Riverside Drive to the 
outer Pier Line in the Hudson River, is admirably adapted 
in location and size to accommodate the memorial pro¬ 
posed, and is by far the best site that could be chosen. 
That part of Manhattan Island which is adjacent to this 
site is already splendidly improved and is destined to be a 
great center of interest for the entire City and State. The 
center of the site faces Cathedral Parkway which is 100 
feet in width. This Parkway passes the Cathedral of St. 
John The Divine and forms the northern boundary of Cen¬ 
tral Park. In any comprehensive and adequate city plan 
the Water Gate of the City would naturally be placed op¬ 
posite to the center of Cathedral Parkway and Cathedral 
Parkway would be a natural route from the Water Gate to 
Central Park and thence to Fifth Avenue and to all parts 
of the City. 

The Hudson River off from this site is 90 feet or more 
in depth and is an anchorage for the United States Navy, 
and a natural place for any naval review. The site is at a 
sufficient distance from the proposed Columbia University 
Stadium, so that it may have a distinction and individuality 
such as the approach to the principal city in the United 
States would require. 

The Robert Fulton Monument Association has caused 
to be prepared, at an expense of some $50,000, excellent 
preliminary plans for a Water Gate with a Reception Hall; 


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a Nautical Museum and a Memorial Arch. The site for 
the proposed Water Gate, and the plans as prepared by Mr. 
Magonigle, the architect, lend themselves admirably to 
combination into a single splendid structure which will 
serve as a Water Gate to the City, State and Nation, as a 
memorial to all those who have helped to found the com¬ 
merce of our country; the Nautical Museum, in which may 
be exhibited models of every style of sea-going craft illus¬ 
trating the history of the art and science of navigation and 
all that is of interest to navigation today; a Commercial 
Museum which shall illustrate the commerce of the City,. 
State and Nation, and the comparison of that commerce 
with the commerce of other nations; a Reception Hall 
in which may be received distinguished guests from 
other States and Nations, and wherein may be held 
receptions of local, national and international interest; 
a large Auditorium seating 10,000 persons, more or less, in 
which may be held national conventions, concerts and his¬ 
torical pageanis for the benefit of all the people, and large 
gatherings of citizens on National Holidays at times when 
the people are interested in great public movements; and 
a Reviewing Stand facing Riverside Drive and facing the 
center of Cathedral Parkway, such Reviewing Stand to be 
a terrace above Riverside Drive and to have at its rear the 
Memorial Arch crowning the Water Gate. 

In working out this plan it is proposed that the piers 
should be carried out on either side of the Water Gate to 
within 100 feet of the outer pier line, and that an agree¬ 
ment be reached that no other structures along that part 
of the Hudson shall extend any farther into the River than 
100 feet from the Pier Line. By thus limiting the piers it 
will be possible to build the pavilions extending into the 
River, as already planned, without great expense. It is 
proposed that the Nautical Museum shall occupy all of the 
space under the Water Gate along its northern side, that 
the Commercial Museum should occupy the space under 
the Water Gate along the southern side, and that the great 
Auditorium should occupy the space under the terrace by 
Riverside Drive and a portion of the space under the main 
stairway of the Water Gate. A room may be provided 
200 feet x 300 feet for the Auditorium which will seat 10,000 
people and will occupy a portion of Riverside Park, requir¬ 
ing very little excavation, and a minimum expense in 
construction. 

By the combination into a single commanding struc¬ 
ture of great dignity in mass and beauty in proportion the 
several factors or functions herein recommended, the 


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memorial will be in daily use throughout the year by very 
large numbers of people. In the spring, summer and 
autumn it will be the center of the boating activities of 
the metropolis and of the Hudson River; the Museums 
will be thronged throughout the year; the Auditorium will 
be in use several times each week; the Reviewing Stand 
will be passed by most of the great processions formed in 
New York, and especially those that on Decoration Day 
pay their respects to the great General whose ashes rest in 
the memorial at Riverside Heights. 

The proposed memorial to the great navigators and 
creators of commerce in our western world will be easily 
accessible by the surface and subway transit*routes, by 
carriage and automobile, and on foot. The Broadway sub¬ 
way station at noth Street and the Broadway surface lines 
are only one block from the location of the Reviewing 
Stand. The piers and pavilions extending into the River 
will be breathing places day and evening for the multi¬ 
tudes of the people of the City, and the great stairway will 
form a splendid reviewing stand for all movements of 
vessels passing up and down the river. 

Naturally there will be refectories provided in the lower 
pavilions, communication with which will be easy from the 
piers, Museums and Auditoriums. 

Because of the continuous and almost universal use by 
the people of this proposed memorial the cost of its con¬ 
struction will be justified alone. 

Your Committee recommends that the Trustees and 
Members of the Robert Fulton Monument Association 
should, so far as practicable, be members of this Commis¬ 
sion, and that this Commission co-operate with that Asso¬ 
ciation in developing the plans for the proposed memorial 
which shall be general in character, and not a memorial to 
any single individual. 

The preparation of a revised preliminary plan and a 
plaster model of the proposed memorial will cost not ex¬ 
ceeding $10,000 and your Committee recommends that 
one-half of this cost be provided by this Commission, and 
that the Robert Fulton Monument Association be invited 
to provide the other half. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Franklin W. Hooper, 

Chairman. 

Dr. Hooper supplemented his written report with a 
verbal explanation of the architects plans for the memorial 
which were exhibited in the meeting room. 


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Mr. Ridder moved the approval of the report, the ap¬ 
propriation, however, being subject to the securing of the 
necessary money. Carried. 

Netherlands Committee 

Mr. Bogert, Chairman of the Netherlands Committee, 
reported that on account of the amount of attention which 
the Hollanders had given their celebration in their own 
country in 1913, they had not been very responsive to his 
first overtures, but he expected that they would manifest a 
greater interest when they came to appreciate the signific¬ 
ance of this Celebration. 

Publicity Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon, Chairman of the Publicity Committee, 
reported that during the past week his committee had 
issued matter about the Celebration through the United 
Press, the Associated Press, and about 1,200 newspapers 
and expected to reach about 1,200 more papers the follow¬ 
ing week. He expressed the solicitude of the committee 
to furnish to the public news based only on authentic data, 
and asked that the Chairmen of committees be requested 
to furnish him with information about their plans as they 
develop from time to time. 

He also recommended that the Committee be authorized 
to have prepared adhesive labels or seals to be affixed to the 
back of envelopes for the purpose of spreading informa¬ 
tion about the celebration. These could be sold to com¬ 
mercial houses which would be glad to use them on their 
correspondence going all over the country. These back- 
seals, he said, were succeeding the postal card as a means 
of publicity and had already attained the distinction of 
being “collected” by collectors. 

Mr. Spratt suggested that the Committee be author¬ 
ized to prepare not only back-seals but also postal cards 
and envelopes, but later withdrew the suggestion for future 
consideration. 

Mr. Ames said that when the Committee on Flag and 
. Poster secured a poster design, it intended to make a 


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recommendation concerning its use in miniature on the 
face of envelopes, as in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. 

Mr. Williams moved that the recommendation of the 
Publicity Committee in regard to back-labels be approved, 
for execution when funds are available. Carried. 

“New York Tercentenary Historic Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee, Inc.” 

The Secretary read a communication dated February 
9, 1913, from Mr. W. Gregory Smith, Second Vice President 
of “the New York Tercentenary Historic Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee, Incorporated,” with executive offices at 147 West 
55th Street, stating that the corporation had been formed 
to produce at the Brighton Beach Race Course during the 
summer of 1914 a mammoth historical pageant entitled 
“Historic New York.” The corporation offered to give fifty 
per cent of the net proceeds to charity or to this Commis¬ 
sion. The corporation asked the Commission either to in¬ 
corporate its plan in the official program of the Commis¬ 
sion and to appoint a committee to supervise its affairs, or 
to embody that corporation in the Commission. In this 
connection, the Secretary stated that on February 6th he 
had received calls from Mr. W. Gregory Smith, the writer 
of the letter, Mr. Gerard N. Whitney, Treasurer of the 
corporation, and Mr. John G. Wilson, who had previously 
called on Mr. Ridder, and later in the day from Major J. 
Otis Woodward, a member of this Commission and First 
Vice President of that corporation. 

After a brief discussion Mr. Williams moved that the 
communication be laid on the table. Carried. 

In view of the confusion which might be caused in the 
public mind by the title of the New York Tercentenary 
Historic Exhibits Committee, Inc., Mr. Lagerlof moved 
that the subject of securing a change in its title be referred 
to the Committee on Law and Legislation with power. 
Carried.* 

*Under date of March 3, the Secretary received a letter from Mr. 
Whitney stating that on February 26, the Board of Directors of The 
New York Tercentenary Commercial Exhibits Committee had voted to 
dissolve the corporation. 



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Various Reports of Progress 

Brief reports of progress were made by Mr. Lee, 
Chiarman of the Local Festivals Committee; Dr. Kunz, 
Chairman of the Museum Exhibits Committee; Prof. Fleck, 
Chairman of the Music Festivals Committee; and Mr. 
Johnston, Chairman of the Reviewing Stands Committee. 

Financial Affairs 

The discussion of ways and means was reserved until 
the end of the meeting in order that Hon. Henry H. Cur¬ 
ran, a member of the Commission and Chairman of the 
Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen, might be 
present. 

Upon the arrival of Alderman Curran, a full and infor¬ 
mal discussion of the subject of an appropriation from the 
City took place, in which Mr. Curran, Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. 
Ridder, General Carroll, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Johnston, Dr. 
Kunz, Mr. Lee, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Spratt and Mr. Williams 
took a leading part. 

At the conclusion of the discussion arrangements were 
made for a conference with Mayor Mitchel in the near 
future. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

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Official Minutes 



OF 


TheN ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 
Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 
Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
April l, 1914 



164 


The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


OFFICERS 


President 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 


Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 


Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 

Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard 


Head quarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 




Chairmen of Committees 


Athletics: Hon. James E. Sullivan. 

Auditing: Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

Banquet: Samuel W. Fairchild. 

Commercial Exhibits: E. P. V. Ritter. 

Contracts: Hon. Robert L. Harrison. 

Designs and Decorations: Charles R. Lamb. 
Educational Institutions: Elmer E. Brown, Ph.D.,LL.D. 
Erie Canal: The Mayor of Syracuse. 

Executive: Hon. Herman Ridder. 

Finance: (Vacant). 

Flag and Poster. Louis Annin Ames. 

Historical Meetings: Samuel V. Hoffman. 
Illuminations: Hon. William Berri. 

Law and Legislation: Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Local Festivals: Hon. William J. Lee. 

Lower Hudson Committee: The Mayor of Yonkers. 
Medal and Badge: Henry R. Drowne. 

Memorials: Franklin W. Hooper, LL.D. 

Museum Exhibits: George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Music Festivals: Prof. Henry T. Fleck. 

Naval Events: Hon. R. A. C. Smith. 

Netherlands: Henry L. Bogert. 

Nominations Committee: Col. Henry W. Sackett. 
Northern New York- The Mayor of Watertown. 
Panama Canal: Hon. Theodore P. Shonts. 
Pan-American Congress: (Vacant). 

Peace Centennial: Hon. William B. Howland. 

Plan and Scope: Gen. Howard Carroll. 

Publicity: A. E. MacKinnon. 

Reception: Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Religious Meetings: Hon. John D. Crimmins. 

Reviewing Stand: William A. Johnston. 

Southern New York: The Mayor of Binghamton. 
Street Parades: Gen. George R. Dyer, N. G., N. Y. 
Upper Hudson: The Mayor of Albany. 


COMMISSION 

Members by Appointment 

(Revised to April io, 1914. Names of Trustees in Italics.) 


Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Lieut. C. J. Ahern 
Charles B. Alexander 
Newton D. Ailing 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John D. Archbold 
John Aspegren 
Vincent Aston 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Edward P. Bates 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc. D. 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Edward J. Berwind 
Union N. Bet hell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Reginald Pelham Bolton 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
William A. Boring 


E. B. Boynton 

Nicholas F. Brady 

William C. Breed 

Herbert L. Bridgman 

Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc.D., Ph.D 

C. C Brown 

Elmer E. Brown , Ph. D., LL. D. 
James W. Brown 
Andrew F. Burleigh 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL.D .Litt.D. 
Hon. William M. Calder 
Herman H. Cammann. 

Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Ca?itor 
Andrew Carnegie. LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchitl 
John Claflin 

Henry Clews, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Charles A. Coffin 

Edward K. Cone 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

Edward C. Converse 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

William E. Corey 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarks 071 Cowl 


Members of the Commission 


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Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 
C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 

Rev. R. Fulton Crary, D.D. 
John B. Creighton 
Hon.John D. Crtmmins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
William N. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Hon. H. H. Curran 
R. Fulton Cutting, D.D. 

Charles F. Daly 
Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 
M. E. de Aguero 
H. W. Dearborn 
Albert de Cernea 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
John D. DeFriest 
Richard Delafield 
William C. Demorest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
John Dowd 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling 
Edward A. Drake 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Hon. William B. Ellison 
Amos F. Eno 
Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 
Clarence L. Fabre 
Samuel IV. Fairchild 
His Eminence John Cardinal 
Farley 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

John Hr Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 


W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
Bert hold Fie sc h, M. D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 
W. C. Freeman 
Henry C. Frick 
Charles H. Fuller 
Michael Furst 
Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 
Elbert H. Gary 
L. B. Gawtry 
James Gayley 
Charles E. Gehring 
John F. Geis 
Isaac Gimbel 
George J. Gould 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
J. B. Greenhut 

Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D. 
Henry E. Gregory 
T. Greidanus 
Isaac Guggenheim 
Murray Guggenheim 
Herbert F. Gunnison 
A. E. Hadlock 
William H. Hale, Ph.D. 

EdwardHagaman HallL. H.D. 

Maj. Isaac A. Hall 

Matthew P. Halpin 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

Hon. John Hays Hammond 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Ernest Harvier 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy 

Col. H. O. S, Heistand, U. S. A. 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Lansing C. Holden 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 


Members of the Commission 


168 


John J. Hopper 
Major F. L. V. Hoppin 
Walter B. Hopping 
Roy W. Howard 
Hon. William B. Howland 
Hon. Charles E. Hughes 
Andrew B. Humphrey 
Archer M. Huntington, Litt. D. 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
Arthur Curtiss James 
A. E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D. C. S. 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 
Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Hon. Benjamin A. Keilev 
Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 
Cornelius G. Kolff 
George F. Kunz , Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Hans Lagerlof 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 
Edward Lauterbach, LL.D. 
William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger , Ph. D,, LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
Nelson P. Lewis 

W. V. Lifsey 

Stephen Lounsbery 

R. Fulton Ludlow 

James B. Mabon 

Clarence H. Mackay 

A. F.. MacKinnon 

Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 

Hon. Alrick H. Man 

William A. Marble 

Hon. Marcus M. Marks 

Hon. Douglas Mathewson 

William H. Maxwell, Ph.D.,LL.D. 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 

Hon. George McAneny 


Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Hon. Charles J. McCormack 
Alfred J. McGrath 
John J. McKelvey 
S. C. Mead 

Rev. H. Pereira Mendes, D.D. 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 

L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
Henry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M. D, 

Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 
Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 
George L. Naught 
George W. Neville 
E. A. Norman 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Olyphant 
Henry F. Osborn, Ph. D., LL.D. 
Eugene H. Outerbridge 
Col. Willis S. Paine 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
John E. Parsons 
Wm. Barclay Parsons, LL.D. 
Hon. George W. Perkins 
Ralph Peters 
Hon. IV. Taylor Phillips 
Lewis E. Pierson 
John B. Pine 
W. H. Pleasants 
Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 
John A. Poynton 
Frederick B. Pratt 
Hon. William A. Prendergast 
Charles W. Price 
Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
A. A. Raven 


Members of the Commission 169 


H. H. Raymond 
Norman B. Ream 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reick 
Charles E. Reid 
Daniel G. Reid 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
George L. Rives, LL.D. 

Rev. Spencer S. Roche 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington^Russell . 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
F. Augustus Schermerhorn 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schijf 
Leo Schlesinger 
Walter Scott 
George Martin Seeley 
William B. Seldon 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Col. John L. Shepherd 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

Hon. John A. Sleicher 
George Carson Smith 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
Nelson S. Spencer 
James Speyer 
Charles E. SJratt 
Charles Sleekier 
Hon. .Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
John A. Stewart 
Hon. Wm. R. Stewart 
Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D. D. 


Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

Melville E. Stone 
Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Jacob Stumpf 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Henry W. Taft 
Willard U. Taylor 
Col. Robert M. Thompson 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Samuel Untermeyer 
Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 

Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Cot nelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Hon. Judson G. Wall 
Henry Walters 
Hon. John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Whitney Warren 
Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 
Hon. James L. Wells 
George Westinghouse, Ph.D. 
Edmund Wetmore 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
W. H. Wiley 

Hon. William R. Willcox 

Arthur Williams 

Talcott Williams, L. H. D., LL.D. 

T. S. Williams 

Francis M. Wilson 

Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 

Charles B. Wolffram 
William J. Wollman 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Woolworth 
James C. Young 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


170 


Members of the Commission 

mayors of Cities (members ex-officio) 


Albany . 

Amsterdam. 

Auburn. 

Beacon . 

Binghamton .. 

Buffalo.. 

Canandaigua. 

Cohoes . 

Corning. 

Cortlandt. 

Dunkirk. 

Elmira. 

Fulton. 

Geneva . 

Glens Falls . 

Gloversville. 

Hornell. 

Hudson . 

Ithaca. 

Jamestown. 

Johnstown. 

Kingston . 

Lackawanna . 

Little Falls. 

Lockport. 

Middletown. 

Mount Vernon... 

Newburgh . 

New Rochelle.... 

New York. 

Niagara Falls 
North Tonawanda 

Ogdensburgh. 

Olean . 

Oneida. 

Oneonta. 

Oswego. 

Plattsburgh. 

Port Jervis. 

Poughkeepsie . 

Rensselaer . 

Rochester. 

Rome. 


.Hon. Joseph IV. Stevens 
. Hon. J. H. Dealy 
. Hon. C. W. Brister 
. Hon. J. A. Frost 
.Hon. John J. Irving 
.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 
.Hon. Peter P. Turner 
.Hon. James S. Calkins 
.Hon. Lewis N. Lattin 
.Hon. Walter H. Angell 
. Hon. J. T. Sullivan 
.Hon. Harry N. Hoffman 
.Hon. Frank E. Fox 
.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 
.Hon. W. Irving Gripping 
.Hon. G. W. Schermerhorn 
.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 
. Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 
.Hon. Thomas Tree 
.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 
.Hon. Clarence W. Smith 
. Hon. Palmer Canfield. Jr. 
.Hon. John I. Sidmey 
.Hon. Frank H. Shall 
.Hon. George A. Brock 
.Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 
.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 
.Hon. John B. Corwin 
. Hon.Edward Stetson Griffing 
.Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
.Hon. William Laughlin 
.Hon. John A. Rafter 
.Hon. Charles D. Hoard 
.Hon. W. H. Simpson 
.Hon. Otto Pfaff 
.Hon. Joseph S. Lunn 
.Hon. Thomas F. Hennessey 
.Hon. W. H. Goff 
.Hon. Frank Lybolt 
.Hon, Daniel IV. Will eft 
.Hon. Frederick Ruhlopf 
.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 
.Hon, H. C. Midlam 














































Members of the Commission 


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Schenectady.Hon. J. Teller Schoolcraft 

Syracuse . Hon. Louts Will 

Tonawanda. Hon. Albert J. Cordes 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica.Hon. James D. Smith 

Watertown . Hon. Isaac R. Breen 

Watervliet . Hon. Edwin W.Joslin 

Yonkers . Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton. 

Catskill. 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth. 

Cornwall. 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson .. 

Dobbs Ferry. 

Fishkill. 

Fort Edward. 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Mechanicville. 

North Tarrytown 

Nyack. 

Ossining. 

Peekskill. 

Piermont. 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck. 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls ... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills. 

Wappingers Falls.... 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw ... 


Hon. William M. Collier 
Hon. Christian Peters 
Hon. Willis A. Haines 
Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
Hon. J. Finley Work 
Hon. William B. Cocks 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. William A. Camfield 
Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
. Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 
Hon. Thomas H. Goundry 
. Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
Hon. William R. Palmer 
Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 














































Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

April 1, 1914 


The thirteenth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday, April 1, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: The President, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. R. Ross Appleton, 
Mr. John Aspegren, Hon. William Berri, Mr.Robert Grier 
Cooke, Mr. Clarkson Cowl, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, 
Gen, George R. Dyer, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. Cornelius G« 
Kolff, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. 
MacKinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Hon. James E, Sullivan (by Mr. W. S. 
Quinn), and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman.) 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Hon. 
Thomas W. Churchill, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Dr. John H. 
Finley, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hon. 
Alton B. Parker, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Jacob H. 
Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Mr. 
James Speyer, and Mr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were 
excused. 

minutes Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting, having been sent to 
all the members of the Commission, were approved as 
printed. 


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Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
the Secretary reported the condition of the Subscription 
Fund on April 1, 1914, as follows : 


RECEIPTS 


Louis Annin Ames. 

$10.00 

Hans Lagerlof. 


John Aspegren. 

10.00 

Charles R. Lamb. 

10.00 

Vincent Astor. 

10.00 

James B. Mabon ...... 


August Belmont. 

10.00 

A. E. MacKinnon. 

10.00 

William Berri. 

10.00 

William A. Marble .. .. 


U. N. Bethell. 

10.00 

W. C. Muschenheim .. 

10.00 

Robt. W. Boissevain. 

10.00 

Morgan J. O’Brien. ... 


Elmer E. Brown. 

10.00 

Eben E. Olcott. 

10,00 

William A . Camp. 

10.00 

Henry F. Osborn. 


Andrew Carnegie . 

10.00 

Alton B. Parker. 


Howard Carroll. 

10.00 

N. Taylor Phillips. 

10.00 

Joseph H. Choate. 

10.00 

William C. Reick. 


Cesare Conti. 

10.00 

Charles E. Reid. 

10.00 

Clarkson Cowl. 

10.00 

Herman Ridder. 


George B. Cortelyou. 

IO'OO 

E. P. V. Ritter. 


John B. Corwin. 

10.00 

J. D. Rockefeller, Jr... 


John D.Crimmins. 

10.00 

Henry W. Sackett. 

10.00 

M. J. Cummings. 

10.00 

Jacob H. Schiff. 


Fred B. Dalzell. 

10.00 

Isaac N. Seligman . ... 

10.00 

Henry Russell Drowne .. 

10.00 

Theodore P. Shonts ... 

10.00 

George R. Dyer. 

10.00 

Robert A. C. Smith . . . 

10.00 

Samuel W. Fairchild.... 

10.00 

James Speyer. 

10.00 

Henry T. Fleck. 

10.00 

Charles E. Spratt. 

.. 10.00 

Berthold M. Flesch. 

10.00 

J. E. Sullivan. 


Charles H. Fuller. 

10,00 

Willard U. Taylor .. . . 

10.00 

George J. Gould . .. 

10.00 

Tiffany & Co. 


Benedict J. Greenhut_ 

10.00 

Henry R. Towne. 

10.00 

Edward Hagaman Hall.. 

10.00 

Theodore N. Vail. 

50.00 

Robert L. Harrison. 

10.00 

Cornelius Vanderbilt.. 

.. 10.00 

William B. Howland_ 

10.00 

Arthur Williams. 

10.00 

William A. Johnston- 

10.00 

William Ziegler, Jr. . . . 


Lucien Jouvaud. 

10.00 



Cornelius G. Kolff. 

10.00 

Total receipts to April 

1, 

George F. Kunz. 

10.00 

i9H . 

. $780.00 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Total disbursements on approved vouchers. 

. $588.02 


Balance on hand April 1, 1914. $191.98 

































































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The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment out of 
the Subscription Fund, subject to examination and 
approval by the Auditing Committee. 


J. A. Cooke, mimeographing.$ 2.00 

Letters Co., mimeographing. 3.00 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co. 2.00 

Chas. Beseler Co., photographs. 1.5° 

C. S. Morrell, shelving. 345 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 176.50 


$188.45 

The Secretary stated that after paying the foregoing, 
there would remain unpaid bills as follows : 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing.$ 168.25 

J. B. Lyon Co., 5,000 copies Annual Report.... 290.00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements for rent, stenographer, 

postage, etc. .. 610.19 

Tiffany & Co., cutting dies for medal. 500.00 

A. H. Stoddard disbursements for clerical help, 

postage, etc. 797.00 

$2,365.44 

The foregoing does not include the salary of Mr. 
Stoddard as Director of Commercial Exhibits at $625 a 
month, beginning December 1, 1913, which is contingent 
upon funds being available to pay it. 

General Financial Affairs 

The President reported that on Monday, March 23, by 
invitation of Mayor Mitchel, he had had a conference with 
the Mayor at the City Hall in regard to an appropriation 
by the City for the Celebration, the result of which was 
that the Mayor arranged for a further conference in his 
office on Wednesday, March 25, at which were present 
Mayor Mitchel, Comptroller Prendergast, President of the 
Board of Aldermen McAneny, and Borough Presidents 
Marks, Mathewson, Pounds, Connolly and McCormack, 
constituting the Board of Estimate and Apportionment; 
and Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Ridder, Judge Parker and the 
Secretary representing the Tercentenary Commission. It 














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was the unanimous expression of the members of the 
Board of Estimate that in view of the unexpected demands 
upon the city’s finances by the recent snow-falls, which 
cost about $2,500,000 for removal, and demands for sewers, 

pavements and other municipal improvements, they would 
not be justified in allowing more than $25,000 for the Cele¬ 
bration. 

On March 16, letters signed by Mr. Vanderbilt and 
Mr. Ridder had been sent to Lieut. Governor Wagner and 
Assemblyman Hinman asking them to have introduced a 
bill appropriating $500,000 for the Celebration and a letter 
had been sent to the Governor inviting his favorable con¬ 
sideration of the matter. The bill had been introduced in 
the Senate by Senator Frawley, but so late in the session 
that it had not been acted upon when the Legislature 
adjourned March 27. 

Mr. Vanderbilt expressed his doubts as to the advisa¬ 
bility of proceeding with the celebration under the circum¬ 
stances, and quoted Mr. Ridder to the same effect. 

Dr. Kunz thought there was sufficient public senti¬ 
ment in favor of the Celebration to warrant further repre¬ 
sentations to the Board of Estimate. 

Dr. Hooper favored going ahead with what the City 
would give, supplemented by what could be secured else¬ 
where. Much of the Commission’s program would cost 
little, and a great deal be done with $25,000. 

Mr. Cooke, as President of the Federated Civic Asso¬ 
ciations, had felt the pulse of many civic organizations and 
was authorized by them to say that they favored carrying 
out the Celebration. 

Mr. Kolff favored accepting the $25,000 gracefully and 
having the best celebration possible with the Commission’s 
resources. 

Mr. Cowl, President of the Central Mercantile Associa¬ 
tion, disliked to see the Commission take a backward step. 
Outside of the educational value of the celebration, it 
would be of value to the business interests of the City from 
the advertising standpoint. 

Commodore Dalzell thought that the judgment of wise 
people outside the Commission should be consulted before 
proceeding further. 


Minutes of Trustees 



Mr. E. P. V. Ritter thought it would be discreditable to 
drop the celebration. The Commission could go out and 
raise the requisite money if necessary. The commercial 
exhibits ought to net the Commission $25,000 or $50,000. 

Mr. Lee said there was no such word as “fail.” What 
the City gave could readily be supplemented by private 
subscriptions. He had always found people ready to help 
the local festivals. 

Mr. Phillips advised caution. He agreed that the 
celebration should not be dropped ; but he thought that if 
any further approach was made to the Board of Estimate it 
should be made by the commercial bodies, not by the Com¬ 
mission. 

Mr. Spratt favored giving the business men a chance 
to respond. The celebration could be kept within what 
they pledged. He would not abandon the celebration until 
it was seen what could be secured. 

Mr. Ames favored trying again to secure adequate 
means. 

Mr. Berri did not favor going ahead with small means. 
He would like to have a committee of influential men learn 
the sentiment of the Chamber of Commerce and other 
bodies and report back. He dwelt on the great impetus 
that would be given to the celebration if it centered on the 
opening of the Panama Canal. Hundreds of thousands of 
dollars could be raised for such a celebration to one thous¬ 
and for the commemoration of an event 300 years ago. 

Mr. Appleton thought Mr. Berri’s suggestion about a 
committee a wise one. He thought other organizations or 
citizens should make any further appeals to the city gov¬ 
ernment. If results were not forthcoming, then the cele¬ 
bration ought to be abandoned or postponed for a year. 

Mr. MacKinnon thought that the situation was due to 
the procrastination of the Commission in applying for 
funds and its neglect to promote publicity. He cited the 
methods and successes of other celebrations, and said this 
Commission should have spent $20,000 on publicity ; 
whereas it had had $50,000 worth of publicity which had 
not cost it two cents. 


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Mr. Kolff moved that a committee, to consist of the 
President, the Presiding Vice President, the Secretary, and 
such other members as should be deemed desirable, be ap¬ 
pointed by the President to confer with various civic 
bodies as to the advisability of the celebration, the prac¬ 
ticability of securing public subscriptions, and the advisa¬ 
bility of making a further request to the City government; 
the committee to report back to the Trustees at a special 
meeting to be called by the President if ready to report 
before the next regular meeting. Carried. 

Appointed by tlie Mayor 

The Secretary reported that under date of March n, 
1914, Mayor Mitchel had appointed as members of the 
Commission the gentlemen nominated by the Trustees on 
February 25 (pages 150-151). 

Nominated for Appointment by tlie Mayor 

It was voted that the following named gentlemen be 
recommended to Mayor Mitchel for appointment on the 
Commission. 

Mr. Joseph Brady Murray, with the Brooklyn Edison 
Co., No. 360 Pearl Street, Brooklyn. 

Hon. William W. Niles, President of the North Side 
Board of Trade, Bainbridge Avenue and 204th Street. 

Hon. Frank L. Polk, Corporation Counsel, Hall of 
Records. 

Mr. William E. Pulsifer, head of D. C. Heath & Co., 
school-book publishers, 239 West 39th Street. 

Mr. William Summers, President of the Maritime 
Association of the Port of New York, 78 Broad Street. 

Change in Membership 

The Secretary reported that the term of office of Hon, 
Charles J. Jaeger as President of the village of Cornwall- 
on-Hudson, having expired, he had been succeeded as an 
ex-officio member of the Commission by Hon. William B. 
Cocks, the present Village President. 

Commemoration at Staten Island March 27, 1914 

The Secretary reported that on Friday, March 27, the 
300th anniversary of the granting, by the United Nether- 


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Minutes of Trustees 


lands, of the first general charter for trading to New Neth- 
erland, the Tercentenary Celebration was inaugurated by 
three events, namely, the striking of the Official Medal, 
the holding of commemorative exercises in the afternoon 
on the site of the proposed National Indian Monument in 
Fort Wadsworth, and the holding of the official Com¬ 
memorative Meeting in the evening in the Hotel Astor. 

The Official Medal is more fully described under that 
heading on pages 182-184 following. 

The ceremonies in Fort Wadsworth were under the 
joint auspices of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission; the American Scenic and Historic Preserva¬ 
tion Society, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, President; the 
Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, Hon. 
Howard R. Bayne, President; the City History Club of 
New York, Mrs. Emil L. Boas, President; the National 
American Indian Memorial Association, Mr. Rodman Wana- 
maker, President; a group of Dutch descendants headed 
by Dr. Tunis G. Bergen; and a group of Iroquois Indians 
from the Cattaraugus Reservation, under the direction of 
Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon. The names of the Indians, 
who were in native garb, were Fillmore Jackson, Walter 
Kennedy, Bemus Pierce, Theodore Jamieson, Orlando 
Doxtater, Frank Logan, Heeman Bennett, Frank Kennedy, 
Hiram Printup and Miss Anna Patterson. 

The United States troops of the post were paraded 
with their band for the occasion, and there was a large 
attendance of civilians, including school children. 

Dr. Kunz presided: 

A pageant was enacted representing the beginning of 
trade between the Dutch and the Indians. The Hollan¬ 
ders were impersonated by Dr. Bergen, Mr. Samuel V. 
Hoffman, and Mr. Seward G. Spoor in costume. Opening 
an ancient chest, they bartered with the Indians, giving 
glass beads (from the American Museum of Natural His¬ 
tory) and sundry goods in exchange for land, furs, etc. 
The pipe of peace was smoked, and addresses made by Dr. 
Kunz, ex-Senator Bayne, Dr. Bergen, Dr. Dixon, Mr. Hoff¬ 
man, and Fillmore Jackson. Music was furnished by the 
army band. 


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Among others present were Col. S. E. Allen, U. S. A., 
and Capt. E. Martindale, U. S. A., to whose courtesy the 
Commission is indebted for the participation of the troops. 

Commemorative Meeting in Hotel A§tor 

At the Commemorative Meeting in the Hotel Astor on 
Friday evening, March 27, Mr. Vanderbilt presided. The 
platform was decorated with palms, and on the front of 
the gallery above the platform was a large official flag of 
the Commission (see pages 140-141) flanked on either side 
by a United States flag. Upon the platform sat the 
speakers, several of the Vice Presidents of the Commission, 
and the Indians before mentioned. The program was as 
follows : 

Organ Recital from 8.15 to 
8.30 p. m. by Arthur Bergh 

Acknowledgment of Divine Blessings of Three Centuries of Growth 
and Prosperity, by Monsignor M. J. Lavelle, Vicar General, 
representing His Eminence John Cardinal Farley. 

“ The Second City of the World,” by His Honor the Mayor of New 
York, John Purroy Mitchel. 

Soprano Solo by Miss Grace Hoffman, 

“ Care Nome ” from “ Rigoletto,” Verdi 
“ The North American Indian of Three Hundred Years Ago,” by 
Fillmore Jackson, an Iroquois Indian. 

“The North American Indian of Today and Tomorrow,” by Dr. 
Joseph Kossuth Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker 
expeditions among the Indians. 

“The United Netherlands,” by Hon. A. van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 
Consul of the Netherlands at New York. 

“ Fort Orange, the First Permanent Settlement in New Netherland,” 
by His Honor the Mayor of Albany, Joseph W. Stevens. 

Piano Solo by Albert von Doenhoff 
Polonaise in A flat, Chopin 

“ The First Families of New Netherland,” by Tunis G. Bergen, LL.D., 
ex-President of the Holland Society, descendant of first white 
child born in New Netherland. 

“The New Route to Cathay,” by Hon. Theodore P. Shonts, Chair¬ 
man of the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1905-1907, under 
• President Roosevelt. 

“ The Merchants of New York,” by Samuel W. Fairchild, manufac¬ 
turer and merchant, President of the Union League Club. 


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Baritone Solos by James Stanley 

(a) “The Night Rider,” Bergh 

(b) “ Lundgi dal Caro Bene,” Fecchi 

(c) “ A Red, Red Rose,” Hastings 

“ The Relations of Education and Commerce,” by Elmer Ellsworth 
Brown, Ph. D., LL. D., Chancellor of New York University, 
formerly United States Commissioner of Education. 

“ The Relations of Art and Commerce,” by Edwin H. Blashfield, 
artist, President of the Society of Mural Painters. 

“The Relations of Science and Commerce,” by George Frederick 
Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., scientist, President of the New York 
Academy of Sciences. 

Benediction by Right Rev. David H. Greer, D.D., Bishop of the Dio¬ 
cese of New York. 

Organ Postlude by Arthur Bergh 

The music was under the direction of Prof. Henry T. 
Fleck, head of the Music Department of the Normal Col¬ 
lege of the City of New York. 

The ushers were from the Boy Scouts of America : Mr. 
Lorillard Spencer, President of New York City Council ; 
Mr. Charles L. Pollard, Executive Deputy Scout Com¬ 
missioner. 


Presentation of Official medal 

The Secretary reported that March 27 was further com¬ 
memorated by the striking of the Official Medal, the first, 
second and third copies of which were presented respec. 
tively to the President of the United^States, the Mayor of 
the City of New York, and the President of the Com¬ 
mission. 

Mr. Vanderbilt presented the Mayor’s medal when he 
introduced the Mayor to speak at the meeting at the Hotel 
Astor on the evening of the 27th. 

Mr. Vanderbilt had invited President Wilson to receive 
the medal intended for him at the meeting March 27, and, 
in the event of his inability to attend in person, to desig¬ 
nate a personal representative to receive it, but the Presi¬ 
dent’s reply, appointing his personal friend Mr. Edward M. 
House, No. 145 East 35th Street, was received too late for 
the meeting. The medal was later transmitted through 
Mr. House with the following letter : 


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New York, April 3, 1914. 

The Hon. Woodrow Wilson, 

President of the United States, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
has the honor to present to you the accompanying Silver 
Medal which is the first Medal struck by this Commission 
to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the beginning of 
the regularly Chartered Commerce of what are now the 
City and State of New York. 

The events commemorated by this memento—the 
granting by the States General of the United Netherlands 
on March 27, 1614, of the first general charter, and on 
October 11, 1614, the first exclusive charter, for trading to 
New Netherland—were of more than local importance, for 
the commercial intercourse between the Old World and the 
chief port of the present United States, thus inaugurated, 
has since then been continuously maintained and has de¬ 
veloped, internally and externally, to proportions of national 
and international significance. 

It is a cause for National felicitation that with this 
commercial and industrial development has come a great 
development in other departments of our national life. At 
no period in the history of the world has the intimate 
reciprocal relation between commerce and industry on the 
one hand and intellectual activity, as represented in the 
arts, sciences and letters, on the other, been so fully recog¬ 
nized as now. A strong and active national commerce and 
a vigorous and virile national industry stimulate art, 
science and literature, and these in turn react upon the 
commercial and industrial life of the Nation, making it 
more fruitful and progressive. And it gives this Com¬ 
mission peculiar pleasure to present this Medal to one who, 
like yourself, has contributed so much to the intellectual 
development of the American people and who, as President 
of the United States, sustains such a vital relation to 
their commercial and industrial progress. 

It is a happy coincidence and also a matter for national 
congratulation, that this year, which rounds out three 
centuries of our commercial progress, should be marked by 
the practical opening under your administration of the 
Panama Canal. The westward passage to Cathay which 
the early explorers sought in vain to find we have built, 
and the piercing of the continental barrier between the 
seas gives promise of still greater triumphs for our com¬ 
merce in the centuries to come. 

We trust that American commerce, which enters upon 


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a new era under your administration, may not only re¬ 
dound to the great benefit of the people of the United 
States, but that it may also bind us more closely to all 
nations in the ties of mutual friendship. 

We avail ourselves of the courtesy of the representa¬ 
tive whom you have designated, Mr. Edward M. House, to 
transmit this Medal to you by his hand. Be pleased to 
accept with it, Mr. President, the assurances of our high 
esteem. 

Very respectfully yours, 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

President. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 

To which the President replied as follows: 

THE WHITE HOUSE 

Washington 

April 9, 1914. 

My dear Mr. Vanderbilt : 

I warmly appreciate the courtesy of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission in sending me the 
silver medal struck to commemorate the three-hundredth 
anniversary of the beginning of the regularly Chartered 
Commerce of what are now the City and State of New 
York. It was a real disappointment to me that I could 
not be present at the celebration. The importance of the 
event is admirably set forth in your interesting letter, and 
I want to express my genuine admiration for the spirit in 
which the celebration was conceived. 

Cordially and sincerely yours, 

Woodrow Wilson. 

Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

New York City. 

Description of Official Medal 

It was voted that the Secretary be authorized to send 
to the members of the Commission circulars announcing 
the striking of the Official Medal and the prices at which 
it could be purchased. The circular is as follows : 

The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
announces that on March 27, 1914, the 300th anniversary 
of the granting, by the States General of the United Neth¬ 
erlands. of the first charter for trading to New Netherlands 
it struck an official Medal commemorating the beginning 



REVERSE 
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of the chartered commerce of what are now the City and 
State of New York. The first medal issued was by per¬ 
mission presented to the President of the United States, 
and the second was presented to His Honor, the Mayor of 
the City of New York, at the Commemorative Meeting 
held on March 27. 

The Medal is three inches in diameter and is made in 
Gold, Silver and Bronze. 

(a) The Gold Medal will be reserved for official presen¬ 
tation by the Commission. 

(b) The Special Silver Medal is intended primarily for 
Members of the Commission but may also be used by 
them for gifts. Upon each Special Siver Medal the indi¬ 
vidual’s name is struck (not engraved) from the original 
die as shown in the picture of President Wilson's Medal. 
This is effected by means of an inset, which is especially 
cut for each individual medal, and which is inserted in 
and becomes a part of the die. Each Special Medal is 
therefore unique. Price $10.00. 

(c) The General Silver Medal is like that described in 
paragraph (b) except that the word “ Commemorative ” is 
struck in the inset instead of the person’s name. This 
may be purchased by the public. Price $8.50. 

(d) The Special Bronze Medal is like the Special Silver 
Medal with the individual’s name described in paragraph 
(b) except that it is made of bronze instead of silver. 
Price $5.00 

(e) The General Bronze Medal is like that described in 
paragraph (c) except that it is made of bronze instead of 
silver. This may be purchased by the public. Price $3.50. 

The medals will be sent post-paid by registered mail. 

The obverse of the Medal bears in its upper part, 
above a long cluster of native American fruits, the legend 
“The Comercial Tercentenary of New York, 1614-1914.” 
Below is depicted the first trading by the Dutch with the 
Indians. In the foreground are a Dutch trader and two 
Indian chiefs; in the background are other Indians, and 
Dutchmen with chests of goods; while in the distance is 
the Dutchmen’s ship on the Hudson River. 

On the reverse are a representation of commercial 
New York City of today, five coats-of-arms, and the panel 
for the name of the owner of the Medal. The view of 
New York City shows the section of lower Manhattan 
from the Singer Building to the Woolworth Building, with 
the Hudson River in the foreground. Upon the river is 
seen the forepart of a modern ocean-going steamship. At 
the top of the Medal are the arms of New Netherland and at 
the bottom the arms of New York State. At the left of the 


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name-panel are the arms of New Amsterdam; at the right, 
the arms of New York City under the English; and 
beneath, the arms of the present City. 

The design is protected from infringement by the 
patent laws of the United States, under which the neces¬ 
sary application has been made. 

A member in subscribing will please print or write his 
name plainly, as he wishes it to be struck on the medal, 
give the address to which he wishes the medal sent and 
enclose check for the necessary amount, payable to “J. P. 
Morgan & Company, Treasurer.” Replies should be sent 
to Edward Hagaman Hall, Secretary, No. 154 Nassau St., 
New York City. 

No Commemorative Postage Stamp 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter from 
Third Assistant Postmaster General Alexander M. Dock¬ 
ery, dated March 4, 1914, regretting that the Department 
could not act favorably upon the Commission’s request for 
commemorative postage stamp. Orded on file. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 



































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Official Minutes 



OF 


TheN ew York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the Laws of 1913 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 

Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 

Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of 
April 22, 1914 




186 


The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


OFFICERS 


Acting President 

Hon. Herman Ridder, 182 William St., New York 

Vice-Presidents 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 


Vincent Astor 

August Belmont 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Geoige J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. I). 

Clarence H. Mackay 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Theodore N. Vail 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Hon. Herman Ridder 

Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 

Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 




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Trustees Meeting 

April 22, 1914 


The fourteenth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday, April 22, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll Cull 

Present: The Presiding Vice-President Herman Rid¬ 
der in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Dr Elmer Ells¬ 
worth Brown, Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Robert Grier 
Cooke, Mr. Clarkson Cowl, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. 
Cornelius G. Kolff, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, 
Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Edward 
P. V. Ritter, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, 
Mr. Willard U. Taylor (by Mr. John Dowd), and Mr. Arthur 
Williams (by Mr. A. E. Norman.) 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. R. Ross 
Appleton, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Mr. 
Charles H. Fuller, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. William J. Lee, 
Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. 
Alton B. Parker, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. 
Schiff, and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were excused. 

Minutes Corrected and Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting were corrected by 
changing the name of William Summers to William Sim¬ 
mons in the 28th line on page 177, and as corrected were 
approved. 


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Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, the 
Secretary presented the following report of the condition 
of the Subscription Fund on April 22 : 


Total subscriptions for expenses.$780.00 

Total disbursements for expenses.776.47 


Balance available for expenses. 3.53 

Received and reserved for medals . 354-to 


Total cash on hand.$ 357-63 

The Secretary stated that the following bills remained 
unpaid : 

E. H. Hall, disbursements.$676.47 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing pamphlets. 290.00 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing.. 242.25 

Tiffany & Co., cutting medal dies.500.00 

A. H. Stoddard, disbursements. 797,00 

F. A. Ringler Co., half-tone cut. 5.00 

Kennedy Circular Advertising Co. 2.00 


$2,512.72 

Foregoing does not include Mr. A. H. Stoddard’s salary 
as Director of Commercial Exhibits which is contingent 
upon money becoming available therefor. 

Resignation of Mr. Vanderbilt as President 

The Presiding Vice-President read the following 
letter : 

30 PINE STREET 

New York 

April 2i, 1914. 

Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Secretary. 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, New York. 

Dear Sir : 

Will you kindly present to the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission my resigna¬ 
tion as President. 

Yours very truly, 

C. Vanderbilt. 

The resignation was accepted with regret. 


















April 22, 1914 


189 


General Financial Affairs 

The Presiding Vice-President said that the President 
had resigned on account of the lack of provision for financ¬ 
ing the proposed celebration. He himself shared Mr. 
Vanderbilt’s view and expressed his desire to be relieved 
of the position of Presiding Vice-President. This was not 
from lack of patriotism or interest, but because he did not 
want to load himself with financial responsibility. 

Mr. Seligman said that present conditions made the 
raising of money difficult. The Peace Centennial Com¬ 
mittee was in a similar position. The City, State and 
United States Governments were under such demands for 
public purposes that substantial appropriations could not be 
expected from them. The effort of the Peace Committee to 
raise $250,000 by subscription would make it more difficult 
for this Commission. He was not hopeless, however, and 
suggested that a Committee be appointed to consider the 
subject further and report back. 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter felt very confident that funds 
could be raised for the celebration. He had talked with 
prominent State officials and members of the Legislature 
and believed that a substantial appropriation—not as much 
as $500,000 asked for in the bill introduced by Senator 
Frawley at the last session of the Legislature, but a con¬ 
siderable sum—could be secured in the Supply Bill at the 
special session of the Legislature called for May 4. This 
could be supplemented by subscriptions, and he named cer¬ 
tain parties and the amounts which they were willing to give* 
He recapitulated some of the figures of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration and expressed the opinion that $300,000 would 
do all that was necessary and that that amount could be 
secured. He believed that the various committees should 
be given an opportunity to raise money. He recalled that 
when Mayor Gaynor appointed the original Citizens’ Com¬ 
mittee out of which this Commission grew, he said that 
the citizens ought to raise the money among themselves 
and he would contribute his share. Mr. Ritter personally 
promised to give or raise $5,000. 


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Mr. Cowl, speaking of a civic organization which he 
represented, said that while it would not contribute out of 
its treasury, its members were ready to be approached as 
individuals. 

Gen. Carroll did not think the celebration should be 
abandoned because the Commission had not secured as 
large appropriations of public funds as it had expected. 
He was very much in favor of the appointment of a com. 
mittee to go and knock at the doors of organizations 
and individuals and ask them what they would give. 
Whatever was done in the way of a celebration, Mr. Her¬ 
man Ridder must be at the head of it. 

Dr. Kunz was strongly in favor of continuing the efforts 
to carry out the celebration. He referred to the inexpen¬ 
siveness of certain features, such as an automobile parade, 
in which the four most proficient pupils from each public 
school should be given a ride; a parade of departments of 
the City Government, etc., etc. He was also in favor of 
carrying out the plans for educational features and scien¬ 
tific exhibitions. 

Mr. Hall suggested to the Trustees that in coming to 
a conclusion on this subject, they should not leave out of 
consideration the fact that on the previous day the armed 
forces of the United States landed in Mexico and that our 
nation was engaged in actual war. 

Dr. Kunz moved that a Committee be appointed with 
power, and with the co-operation of the Finance Com¬ 
mittee, to consider the subject of ways and means and 
report back to the Trustees. Carried. 

The Presiding Vice-President appointed Mr. Edward 
P. V. Ritter as Chairman, with power to select his associates. 
Mr. Ritter subsequently selected Gen. Howard Carroll, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Arthur 
Williams and Mr. Robert Grier Cooke. 

Proposal to Raise Money on Commission Basts 

The proposal of Mr. J. C. Chambers and others to raise 
$300,000 within four weeks on a commission basis was laid 
on the table. 


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191 


Proposal to Print Souvenirs 

The proposal of the Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford 
Co., to become official printers of souvenirs of the Com¬ 
mission, and offering to pay the Commission 5$ of their 
gross receipts, was laid on the table. 

Changes in the Commission 

The Presiding Vice-President announced with sincere 
sorrow that Mr. George Westinghouse, a member of the 
Commission, had died on March 12, 1914. 

Also that Hon. Thomas H. Goundrv had succeeded 

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H on. R. S. Sherman as President of the Village of South 
Glens Falls. 

Also that Colonel Robert M. Thompson had declined 
his recent appointment owing to his inability to give per¬ 
sonal attention to the work of the Commission. 

Annual Meeting, May 6 

The Secretary stated that the By-laws of the Commis¬ 
sion (page 15) required that the Annual Meeting of the 
Commission for the election of Trustees for the ensuing 
year and the transaction of other business should be held 
on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in May at 
3 p. m., and that it was incumbent upon the Trustees to 
fix the place of meeting. 

He also explained that the Commission elected the 
Trustees only and not officers. The Trustees elected the 
officers of the Commission at the next meeting of the 
Trustees after the Annual Meeting of the Commission. 

It was voted that the Annual Meeting of the Commis¬ 
sion be held in the library of the Presiding Vice-President 
at 182 William Street, on Wednesday, May 6, at 3. p. m. 

Nominating Committee Enlarged 

The Presiding Vice-President, at the request of the 
Nominating Committee, enlarged that Committee by ad¬ 
ding Messrs. Kunz and Ritter, so that it now consisted of 
Col. Henry W. Sackett, Chairman; Gen Howard Carroll, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter and the 
Secretary. 


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Copies of Annual Report for Public Schools 

The Secretary reported that there had been many re¬ 
quests from school teachers for copies of the Annual Report 
on account of the historical matter contained in it, and that 
he had sent 3,500 copies to the Board of Education which 
President Churchill said he would have distributed among 
the public schools. 


Official Medal 

The Secretary stated that, as indicated in the Treas¬ 
urer’s report, all moneys remitted for medals were reserved 
for the medal account and were not applied on general ex¬ 
penses. The Commission made a profit of $1.00 each 
(less postage) on the Special Silver Medals and a profit of 
$1.50 each (less postage) on the General Silver Medal, 
Special Bronze Medal and General Bronze Medal, at the 
prices mentioned on page 183 of the Minutes. As this profit 
went toward the payment of the initial cost of the dies, 
$500, he expressed the hope that every member of the Com¬ 
mission would order one or more of them. The Medals 
were not restricted to members of the Commission, and 
could be ordered for or by persons who were not on the 
Commission. 

The meeting than adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Official Minutes 


OF 


The N ew York Commercia 
Tercentenary Commission 


Incorporated by Chapter 31 3 of 
the Laws of 191 3 of the State 
of New York for the Celebration 
in 1914 of the Three Hundredth 
Anniversary of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered 
Commerce of what is now the 
State of New York 


Minutes of Annual Meeting 
May 6, 1914 

Minutes of Trustees 
May 27, June 24, July 1, 8, 1914 





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Minutes of 

Annual Meeting 

May 6, 1914 

I he Annual Meeting of the New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission was held in the library of the Acting 
President, Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William Street, 
New York City, on Wednesday, May 6 , 1914, at 3 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: The Acting President, Hon. Herman Ridder, 
presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. R. Ross Appleton, 
Mr. F. S. Bishop, Mr. Henry Lawrence Bogert, Gen. How¬ 
ard Carroll, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke (by Mr. W. E. 
Brown), Mr. Warren Cruikshank, Mr. M. E. de Aguero, 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Dr. William H. Hale, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Mr. Richard G. Hollaman, Dr. Franklin W. 
Hooper, Hon. Benjamin A. Keiley, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. 
Mac Kinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. E. A. 
Norman, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Mr. George Martin Seeley, Mr. William B. Seldon, Mr. 
Charles E. Spratt (by Mr. Cockle), Hon. James E. Sulli¬ 
van (by Mr. Quinn), Major Robert A. Widenmann, Mr. 
Otis Fenner Wood and Mr. James C. Young. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Dr. Marcus Ben¬ 
jamin, Hon. William Berri, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Mr. 
Benedict J. Greenhut, Hon. Adolph L. Kline, Mr. Fred¬ 
erick B. Pratt, Mr. Charles W. Price, Col. Henry W. 
Sackett, and Hon. John A. Sleicher, and they were excused. 

Annual Election of Trustees 

The transactions of the Board of Trustees having been 
regularly printed and sent to all the members of the Com¬ 
mission, the executive officers presented no reports. 


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Annual Meeting 


In behalf of Col. Henry W. Sackett, Chairman of the 
Nominating Committee, the Secretary presented the report 
of that Committee, recommending the re-election of the 
present 93 Trustees, and the election of 7 more as fol¬ 
lows, making the total number of 100 required by the 
By-laws: Mr. George C. Boldt, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, 
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, 
Dr. William H. Maxwell, Hon. George W. Perkins and 
Dr. Edward W. Stitt. 

The report was received, and there being no other nomi¬ 
nations, Dr. Hooper moved that the Secretary be directed 
to cast a single ballot in behalf of the meeting for the nomi¬ 
nees. The motion was unanimously carried; and the Secre¬ 
tary having cast the ballot as directed, the President de¬ 
clared the following named gentlemen elected Trustees for 
the ensuing year: 


Louis Annin Ames 


Hon. John D. Crimmins 

Hon. R. Ross Appleton 


Col. Michael J. Cummings 

John Aspegren 


Com. Fred B. Dalzell 

Vincent Astor 


M. E. de Aguero 

August Belmont 


Hon. Robert W. de Forest 

Hon. William Berri 


Henry Russell Drowne 

Union N. Bethell 


Gen. George R. Dyer 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 


Samuel W. Fairchild 

Robert W. Boissevain 


John H. Finley, Ph. D., LL. D. 

George C. Boldt 


Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

H. A. Bonnell 


Berthold Flesch, M.D. 

Herbert L. Bridgman 


Charles H. Fuller 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. 

D., 

George J. Gould 

LL. D. 


Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. R. Butler 


Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL. 

D., 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Litt. D. 


Ernest Harvier 

Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 


Samuel V. Hoffman 

Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 


Franklin W. Hooper, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 


Hon. William B. Howland 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 


William A. Johnston 

Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 


Lucien Jouvaud 

Cesare Conti 


Cornelius G. Kolff 

Robert Grier Cooke 


George F. Kunz, Ph. D., 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 


Sc. D. 

Clarkson Cowl 


Hans Lagerlof 


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Charles R. Lamb 


James Speyer 

William J. Lee 


Charles E. Spratt 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. 

D., 

Charles Steckler 

LL. D. 


Edward W. Stitt, Ph. D. 

Clarence H. Mackay 


Hon. James E. Sullivan 

A. E. MacKinnon 


Willard U. Taylor 

William H. Maxwell, Ph. 

D., 

Henry R. Towne 

LL. D. 


Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 

W illiam C. Muschenheim 


William S. Van Clief 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 


Cornelius Vanderbilt 

Eben E. Olcott 


Hon. William R. Willcox 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph. 

D. 

Arthur Williams 

LL. D. 


William Ziegler, Jr. 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 


Mayor of Albany 

Hon. George W. Perkins 


Mayor of Binghamton 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 


Mayor of Cohoes 

William C. Reick 


Mayor of Glens- Falls 

Charles E. Reid 


Mayor of Hudson 

Hon. Herman Ridder 


Mayor of Kingston 

Edward P. V. Ritter 


Mayor of Newburgh 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 


Mayor of Poughkeepsie 

Col. Henry W. Sackett 


Mayor of Rensselaer 

Jacob H. Schiff 


Mayor of Syracuse 

Isaac N. Seligman 


Mayor of Troy 

Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 


Mayor of Watertown 

Hon. R. A. C. Smith 


Mayor of Watervliet 

Luigi Solari 


Mayor of Yonkers 


General Business 

There was a general discussion of the affairs of the 
Commission, but no action was taken. 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Special Com¬ 
mittee on Ways and Means, announced that he had arranged 
to have a delegation from the Commission go to Albany on 
the following day (May 7), for the purpose of laying be¬ 
fore the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways 
and Means Committee of the Assembly a recpiest for an 
appropriation for the Tercentenary Celebration. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Trustees’ Meeting 

May 27, 1914 

The fifteenth annual meeting of the Trustees of the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held 
in the library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 Wil¬ 
liam Street, New York City, on Wednesday, May 27, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: The Acting President, Hon. Herman Ridder, 
presiding; Mr. Louis Anin Ames, Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
(by Mr. M. B. Van Cott), Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry 
L. Bogert, Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, Mr. Ed¬ 
ward Hagaman Hall, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. Cor¬ 
nelius J. Kolfif, Dr. George F. Kunz, Hon. William J. Lee, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Dr. Ed¬ 
ward W. Stitt, and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. A. E. 
Norman.) 

Absentees Excused 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Plon. Jacob A. Cantor, 
Hon. John D. Crimmins, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Hon. 
Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Charles IT. Fuller, Hon. Robert 
L. Harrison, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Col. Henry W. Sackett, 
and Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, and they were excused. 


Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the trustees’ meeting held April 22, 1914, 
having been printed and sent to all the members of the 
Commission, were approved. 


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Treasurer’s Report 

The Secretary, in behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs J. P. 
Morgan & Co., reported the condition of the Subscription 
Fund as follows: 


Received for expenses previously reported. $780.00 

Received from William J. Lee. 10.00 

Received from A. E. Johnson. 10.00 

Received from Theodore N. Vail. 1,000.00 


Total subscriptions for expenses. $1,800.00 

Total disbursements for expenses before reported.. 776.47 


Balance available for expenses. $1,023.53 

Cash received and reserved for medals. 421.10 


Total cash on hand. $1,444.63 


The report was received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment out of the 
Subscription Fund, subject to examination and approval by 


the Auditing Committee. 

E. H. Hall, disbursements.... $748.76 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing.. 241.75 

F. A. Ringler Co., half-tone cut. 5-00 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. 4.00 


$999.51 

The Secretary stated that after the payment of the fore¬ 
going, the following bills would remain unpaid: 


Tiffany & Co., cutting medal dies. $500.00 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing 5000 pamphlets. 290.00 

Polhemus printing Co., printing. 19.15 

A. H. Stoddard, disbursements. 797.00 


$1,606.15 


The foregoing does not include Mr. Stoddard’s salary as 
Director of Commercial Exhibits beginning December 1, 
1913, which is contingent upon money becoming available 
therefor. 

Changes in the Commission 

The resignations or declinations of Messrs. Charles B. 
Alexander, Henry Escher, Jr., Isaac Guggenheim and James 
B. Mahon as members of the Commission were accepted 
with regret. 

























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Annual Election of Officers 

The Secretary, in behalf of Col. Henry W. Sackett, Chair¬ 
man of the Nominating Committee, stated that as this was 
the first meeting of the Trustees after the Annual Meeting 
of the Commission on May 6, it was in order to elect officers 
for the ensuing year. He then presented the report of the 
Nominating Committee, as follows: 


New York, May 27, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen : 

Your Nominating Committee respectfully recommends 
for election as Officers of the Commission for the ensuing 
year the following named gentlemen : 

For President 
Hon. Herman Ridder 


For Vice-Presidents 

Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schifif 


Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 


Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D.Henry R. Towne 
Clarence H. Mackay Theodore N. Vail 

Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien Arthur Williams 
Hon. Alton B. Parker William Zeigler, Jr 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

For Treasurer 
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

For Secretary 
Edward Hagaman Hall 

For Assistant Secretary 
A. E. MacKinnon 


The members of the Nominating Committee included in 
the foregoing list dissent from their own nominations but 
concur as to all the others. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Henry W. Sackett, 

Chairman. 


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1 he President called for other nominations. There being 
none, Gen. Carroll moved that the Secretary be directed to 
cast a single ballot in behalf of the Board for nominees. 
The motion was unanimously carried, and the ballot having 
been cast as directed, the nominees were declared unani¬ 
mously elected. 


Nominated to the Mayor for Appointment on Commission 

I he Nominating Committee also recommended that the 
following named gentlemen be nominated to His Honor 
the Mayor of New York for appointment on the Commis¬ 
sion : 

Mr. Joseph F. Becker, United Electric Light & Power Co., 
130 East 15th Street. 

Mr. Walter S. Crandell, stock broker, 25 Broad Street. 

Mr. Joseph L. Delafield, lawyer, 35 Nassau Street. 

Mr. John C. Freund, publisher, 505 Fifth Avenue. 

Mr. William Homan, furniture manufacturer, 450 Water 
Street. 

Mr. Frank W. Smith, Secretary and Manager of the United 
Electric Light & Power Co., 130 East 15th Street. 

Mr. Charles Steinway, piano manufacturer, 109 East 14th 
Street. 

Mr. Carl Ridemeister, of Steinway & Sons, 109 East 14th 
Street. 

Mr. Abram Wakeman, coffee merchant, 96 Water Street. 

The recommendation was approved and the gentlemen 
named were nominated to the Mayor for appointment. 


Report of Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Ways and 
Means Committee, reported that since the last meeting the 
Ways and Means Committee had been enlarged and was 
now composed of the following members: 


E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
Robert Grier Cooke 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck 


Ernest Harvier 
Dr. George F. Kunz 
William J. Lee 
Arthur Williams 


The work of the Committee was reported under the fol¬ 
lowing head. 


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State Appropriation of $100,000 

Mr. Ritter presented the following report: 

May 27, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen.— A committee, consisting of the following: 
William J. Lee, Prof. H. T. Fleck, Dr. E. H. Hall, Otis F. 
Wood, F. E. Bishop, A. H. Stoddard, Joseph E. Kean, H. 
B. Fanton, E. M. Stilger (represented by Mr. Kaess) and 
Edward P. V. Ritter, appeared before Governor Glynn, 
Senator Frawley, Chairman of the Finance Committee, 
President Wagner of the Senate, Speaker Sweet of the As¬ 
sembly, Majority Leader Hinman, Minority Leader Smith, 
on the 7th instant, requesting an appropriation for the Ter¬ 
centenary Celebration. 

This was followed up by Mr. William J. Lee and myself 
last week, until a Conference Committee was appointed from 
both houses. I then spent the remaining three days in Al¬ 
bany with this Committee, and we were successful in hav¬ 
ing an appropriation of $100,000 inserted in the Supply Bill 
which was unanimously passed by both the Senate and 
Assembly, Wednesday, the 20th instant. This bill is now 
awaiting the signature of the Governor. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. P. V. Ritter, 

Chairman. 

There was a general discussion of the report, after which 
Gen. Carroll moved that the Board express its very hearty 
appreciation of the successful work of the Ways and Means 
Committee. Carried. 

Dr. Stitt moved that a letter, signed by the President and 
Secretary, be sent to Senator Frawley, Senator Wagner, 
Speaker Sweet and the others who aided in securing the 
appropriation, thanking them in behalf of the Commission 
for their co-operation. Carried. 


Report of Finance Committee 

In the absence of Mr. Appleton, Chairman of the Finance 
Committee, his representative, Mr. M. B. Van Cott, re¬ 
ported that in a preliminary canvass under the joint aus- 


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pices of the Finance and Ways and Means Committees, sub¬ 
scriptions amounting to $3,680 had been received. Of this 
amount the Chairman had received checks for $1,440, 
which he held awaiting the progress of the Commission in 
other directions. The report was received and the Chair¬ 
man requested to hold the checks for instructions. 

Mr. Stoddard said that in the preliminary canvass for 
subscriptions and exhibits, every firm approached on Fifth 
avenue had agreed to subscribe, but wanted some guide as to 
the amount. Many members of the Central Mercantile 
Association, the Merchants Exchange and the Fruit Ex¬ 
change had been seen and had expressed their readiness to 
cooperate, some by contributions and some by participation 
in the commercial exhibits. 

Mr. Ritter said that in the preliminary canvass thus far 
made, no expenses had been incurred, no commissions paid 
and none obligated. 

Raising of Funds Authorized 

On motion of Dr. Hooper, the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee and the officers of the Commission, with power to 
add to their number, were authorized to apply to the Mayor, 
Board of Estimate and Board of Aldermen of the City of 
New York for such appropriation by the City as should 
appear to be justifiable. 

On motion of Dr. Hooper, the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee and officers of the Commission were authorized, em¬ 
powered and directed to take such proper measures for 
raising funds by subscription as in their judgment should 
be deemed advisable. 


Dedication of Merchants Coffee House Tablet 

The Secretary reported that on Saturday, May 23, a tab¬ 
let marking the site of the old Merchants’ Coffee House on 
the southeast corner of Wall and Water street, was erected 
by the Lower Wall Street Business Men’s Association and 
dedicated under the joint auspices of that Association and 
this Commission. The principal officers of the former are 
as follows: Honorary President, Hon. Seth Low; Presi- 


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dent, William Bayne, Jr.; Secretary, Abram Wakeman; and 
Treasurer, L. W. Minford. 

The officers of the Committee and the Commission and 
guests met at Fraunces’ Tavern and at 12.30 p. m., a recep¬ 
tion was held. At 1 o’clock the Lower Wall Street Busi¬ 
ness Men’s Association met at the Coffee House site, No. 
93 Wall street, and marched to Fraunces' Tavern, whence 
they escorted the officers and guests to the Coffee House 
site. Nearly every historical society in the City, as well as 
the universities and great public libraries, were officially 
represented. The program at the dedication was as follows, 
interspersed with music. 

Introduction of the Hon. Seth Low, Honorary President, 
by the President, William Bayne, Jr. 

Address on “ The History of the Merchants' Coffee 
House ’’ by the Secretary, Abram Wakeman. 

Address by Wilberforce Eames, of the Division of Ameri¬ 
can History of the New York Public Library. 

Address by H. M. Randall, President of the Montauk 
Bank of Brooklyn, representing the Marine Society. 

Reading of a telegram from Governor Glynn to the Gov¬ 
ernor of New York in 1974. 

Sealing of a bronze chest containing many documents, in¬ 
cluding a copy of a letter written from the Coffee House 
May 23, 1774, proposing a union of the colonies ; a program 
of the celebration; a “ History and Reminiscences of Lower 
Wall Street and Vicinity; ’’ and sketches of the participating 
organizations, the chest to remain unopened in the custody 
of the New York Historical Society until 1974. 

Unveiling of the tablet by Miss Ellen Jay, Miss Eleanor 
Flawkes, and Mrs. Alexander Duane, descendants respec¬ 
tively of John Jay, Alexander McDougall and James Duane, 
signers of the “ union letter of 1774.” 

The inscription on the tablet is as follows: 


The Merchants Coffee House 
THE BIRTHPLACE OF OUR UNION. 

May 23, 1774. 

The Merchants Coffee Flouse 
Occupied this site from about 1737 until 
destroyed by tire, December 18, 1804. 


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Here met the Committees of Citizens who took prominent 
part in the stirring events which led to the Revolution. 

Here also was drafted by a special committee, composed 
of Isaac Low, chairman, Alexander McDougall, James Duane and 
John Jay of the New York Committee of Correspondence, 
the epoch-making letter of May 23, 1774, which was dispatched 
to Boston and in which appears the following striking sentence: 

“ From a virtuous and spirited union much may 
be expected, while the feeble efforts of a 
few will only be attended with mischief and 
disappointment to themselves, and triumph to 
the adversaries of our liberty.” 

From this resulted the first Congress of 
the ‘‘United Colonies of N orth America,’’ held 
at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. 


Among other notable events that took place 
in the Merchants Coffee House w.ere 

A banquet “ to his excellency the President and the 

honourable Members of Congress ” by Chamber of 

Commerce of the State of New York, February 3, 1785. 
Reception to General Washington on his arrival for 

inauguration as first President of the United States 

of America, under the new Constitution, by his 

Excellency the Governor, officers of State, his honour 

the Mayor, and distinguished citizens, April 23, 1789. 


Here also were held early meetings of 
the following organizations and institutions 


1 744 Bristol Merchants’ Mining Company 
1759 New York Insurance Company 
1764 ^ Society of Arts, Agriculture and 
\ Economy 

1770 Knights of Corsica 

( New York Committee of 
\Correspondence 

1774 Society of Merchants and Mechanics 

1775 Artillery Company 

1776 United Whaling Company of New York 
1778 New York Marine Society 

, 77Q [Chamber of Commerce 
‘ L \ of the State of New York 
1781 Committee on Manufactures 
17C o f Lodge 169, Free and Accepted 

1783 \ Masons 

1784 * ® an k New York, New York’s first 

‘ \ financial institution 

USd 1 Grand Lodge Room for Free and 
\ Accepted Masons 

1784 Whig Society, Lewis Morris, chairman 
170 c [Society cf the New York 
1/8& \Hospital 

1785 St. Andrew’s Society 

This Tablet 


1785 Society of the Cincinnati 
17c . [Society of the Sons of 
1/85 \ St. Patrick 
1785 Mutual Assurance Company 
17 oc [Society for Promoting 
\ Manumission of Slaves 
i 7 cc [ St. John’s Lodge, Free and Accepted 
178b \ Masons 

1788 New York Society Library 

170 o [ Society for the Relief of Distressed 

1/88 \ Debtors 

17 co [New York Manufacturing 
1/88 [Society 

i 7 nn ( First Public Sales of Stocks by sworn 
1790 j brokers 

17n „ [Black Friars’ Society, called 
1793 i “ Friary ” 

17ftQ f New York Stockholders’ Bank of the 
1 United States 

17fl o | Subscribers to the Tontine Coffee 
1(93 [House 

1796 Independent Rangers 

1800 Federal Republicans 

1801 Columbian Insurance Company 

was Erected by 


THE LOWER WALL STREET BUSINESS MEN’S ASSOCIATION, 


May 23, 1 9 1 4 • 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 




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Trustees’ Meeting 

June 24, 1914 

The sixteenth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the li¬ 
brary of the President, Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 Wil¬ 
liam street, New York City, on Wednesday, June 24, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: The President, Hon. Herman Ridder, presiding; 
Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. R. Ross Appleton, Mr. Henry 
L. Bogert, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Mr. Henry Russell 
Drowne, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Charles 
R. Lamb, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Mr. Ed¬ 
ward P. V. Ritter, Mr. N. S. Quinn representing Air. J. E. 
Sullivan and Mr. Arthur Williams. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Herbert L. 
Bridgman, Dr. Nicholas AI. Butler, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, 
Hon. John D. Crimmins, Com. Fred B. Dalzell, Lion. Rob¬ 
ert W. de Forest, Gen. George R. Dyer, Mr. Charles H. 
Fuller, Dr. H. M. Leipziger, Dr. William H. Maxwell, Col. 
Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. R. A. C. 
Smith, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, Mr. Theodore N. Aail and 
Hon. William R.Willcox, and they were excused. 

Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Alorgan & Co., Treasurer, the 
Secretary reported the condition of the Subscription Fund 
as follows: 


DEBIT 

Received for expenses previously reported. $1,800.00 

Received for medals. 431.10 


\ 


$2,231.10 





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207 


CREDIT 


Disbursements previously reported. $776.47 

20. Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 241.75 

21. F. A. Ringler Co., halftone cut. 5.00 

22. Kennedy Circular Adv. Co. 4.00 

23. E. H. Hall, disbursements. 748.76 

- $1,775.98 


Balance on hand June 24, 1914. $455.12 

of which $431.10 is reserved for medals. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

T he following bills were approved for payment out of 
the Subscription Fund, when funds are available, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


A. H. Stoddard, disbursements. $739-50 

Jaques & Co., printing. 279.50 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 23.90 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. 2.00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements. 54-75 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing. 290.00 

Tiffany & Co., medal dies. 500.00 

Postal Telegraph Co. 22.96 


$1,912.61 


Meeting of Plan and Scope Committee 

The Secretary reported that on June 15 a special meeting 
of the Plan and Scope Committee had been held at which 
the Secretary was requested to ask the Chairman of sub¬ 
committees to send in estimates of their financial require¬ 
ments. Less than half the Committees had replied and 
their estimates aggregated $220,000. 

Report of Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee, reported that the Supply Bill passed by the 
Legislature in extraordinary session and signed by the Gov¬ 
ernor (chapter 530, Laws of 1914), contained an appropria¬ 
tion of $100,000 for the purposes of this Commission. The 
item reads as follows: 

“ For the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commis¬ 
sion (as provided by chapter three hundred and thirteen 























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of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen) one hundred 
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of 
commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the 
regularly chartered commerce of the State of New York, 
$ 100,000.00. ” 

Mr. Ritter’s report contained various recommendations 
concerning financial matters and dates of events in the 
Celebration. 

Upon motion of Dr. Hooper it was voted that the report 
he generally approved, subject to modification, and that it be 
referred back to the Committee for further consideration. 

Upon the suggestion of the President it was voted that the 
thanks of the Trustees be given to Mr. E. P. V. Ritter and 
associates for their good offices in helping to secure the 
appropriation. 


Loan of a Working Fund Authorized 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter moved that the Ways and Means 
Committee be authorized to arrange for a loan of $10,000 
from Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. to the Commission to be 
used as a working fund and to be reimbursed on vouchers 
against the State. Carried. 


Raising of Subscriptions 

There was a general discussion of the subject of securing 
contributions to the Subscription Fund. At the conclusion 
of the discussion, it was voted that the Ways and Means 
Committee and Finance Committee be authorized to con¬ 
tinue the work of soliciting subscriptions, provided the ex¬ 
pense in connection therewith did not exceed fifteen per 
cent of the amount of the subscriptions received by this 
means. 

During the discussion of financial matters, the Secretary 
requested that the Secretary be relieved of financial details. 
He believed it would be better if the Chairman of the Fi¬ 
nance Committee, as Assistant Treasurer, established an 
office in which all the details of book-keeping, preparation 
of vouchers, and the receipt and disbursement of funds 
should be attended to, leaving to the Secretary the strictly 


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209 


secretarial duties of the Commission. He also suggested 
that the Commission engage a paid Secretary, preferably the 
present Assistant Secretary. He asked to be relieved of 
the Secretary's duties because his residence in the country 
during the summer would necessitate his leaving town early 
every day and shorten his hours for business. 

No action was taken on the request and recommendations. 


Salaries of Secretary and Assistant Secretary 

An inquiry from the President having elicited the fact 
that the Secretary had been serving gratuitously since his 
election on January 31, 1913, in addition to placing his 
offices and office equipment at the service of the Commis¬ 
sion, it was voted that the Secretary be paid a salary of 
$500 a month beginning December 1, 1913. 

The question of the amount of the salary of the Assist¬ 
ant Secretary was deferred to a subsequent meeting. 


Appropriation for Memorial Postponed 

Dr. Hooper, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
laid before the Board a form of contract, the wording of 
which had been approved by the Contracts Committee, 
agreeing to pay Mr. H. Van Buren Magonigle, architect, 
$5,000 toward the expense of modifying his plans and mak¬ 
ing a plaster model of the proposed Memorial Watergate 
so as to embody the suggestions made by the Memorials 
Committee of this Commission; and he moved that Presi¬ 
dent and Secretary be authorized to execute the contract in 
behalf of this Commission. He explained that this contract 
was drafted pursuant to the report and recommendation of 
the Memorials Committee approved by the Trustees Feb¬ 
ruary 25, 1914 (pp. 156-159), and that the Robert Fulton 
Watergate Association had agreed to contribute a like 
amount for that purpose. He said that the Watergate Asso¬ 
ciation had already spent $50,000, and he gave other par¬ 
ticulars about the proposed memorial. 

An earnest discussion followed, in which there developed 
a difference of opinion as to the advisability of making the 


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appropriation, or at least of committing the Commission at 
this time. 

At the conclusion of the discussion it was voted to lay 
Dr. Hooper's motion on the table. 


Vote to Adjourn One Week 

Dr. Hooper moved that when the Board adjourned, it 
should adjourn for one week. Carried. 


Apportionment of Funds 

On motion of Mr. Reid, it was voted that the apportion¬ 
ment of funds for the use of the various committees be re¬ 
ferred to the Ways and Means Committee and the Secre¬ 
tary, to report back their recommendations to the Trustees. 

Civil Service Exemption 

It was voted that the State Civil Service Commission be 
requested to except the employes of this Commission from 
examinations under the provisions of civil Service Rule 
VIII, subdivision 9. 


Vice Chairman of Athletics Committee 

It was voted that Mr. William J. Lee be appointed Vice 
Chairman of the Athletics Committee. 


Historical Meeting 

The Secretary laid before the Board the request of the 
City History Club that the Commission officially recognize 
the dedication of an historical cannon in Battery Park in 
October next. So ordered. 

The meeting then adjourned for one week. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


2 II 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

July I, 1914 

The seventeenth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held pur¬ 
suant to adjournment in the library of Hon. Herman Rid- 
der, No. 182 William Street, New York City, on Wednes¬ 
day, July 1, 1914, at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Vice-President, 
presiding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. R. Ross Appleton, 
Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. 
Bridgman, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Hon. John D. Crim- 
mins, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Mr. 
Benedict J. Greenhut, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Dr. 
Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. William 
J. Lee, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. Charles E. Reid, and 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter. 

Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown was represented by his sec¬ 
retary, Mr. Benjamin P. De Witt; Mr. James E. Sullivan 
by Mr. Quinn; and Mr. Arthur Williams by Mr. E. A. 
Norman. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Gen. Howard 
Carroll, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Gen. George; R. 
Dyer, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Hon. 
Herman Ridder, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. 
Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman and Theodore N. Vail, and 
they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of June 24, 1914, were read 
and approved. 


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Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, the 
Secretary presented the following report of the condition 
of the Subscription Fund on July i, 1914: 


DEBIT 

Received for expenses, previously reported. $1,800.00 

Received for medals, previously reported. 431.10 

Received through Chairman of Finance Committee 
June 29, 1914. 1,370.00 


Total receipts 


$3,601.10 


CREDIT 

Disbursements previously reported. $1,775-98 

24. A. H. Stoddard, disbursements. 739-50 

25. Jaques & Co., printing. 279.50 

26. Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 23.90 

27. Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multegr.... 2.00 

28. E. H. Hall, disbursements. 54-75 

29. J. B. Lyon Co., printing. 290.00 

- 3.165.63 


Balance on hand July 1, 1914 


$ 435-47 


of which $431.10 is reserved for medals. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bill Approved for Payment 

The following bill was approved for payment, subject to 
examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 

A. H. Stoddard, 4 months salary as Director of Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits and Pageantry, beginning Dec. 1, 

1913, as per contract (page 130 of Minutes). $2,500.00 

Resignation of President Ridder 

The Secretary read the following letter: 

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, 182 William Street, 

New York. 

July 1, 1914. 

Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary, The New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission, Tribune Bldg., City. 

My Dear Mr. Hall: 

I hereby resign as President, Vice-President, and Pre¬ 
siding Vice-President of the New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission. 

Yours faithfully, 

Herman Bidder, 





















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213 


Dr. Hooper moved that the letter be laid on the table; 
that Mr. Ridder be requested to continue as President and 
that he be asked to designate a Presiding Vice-President 
to relieve him as much as possible of the actual executive 
work. Carried. 

Judge Parker moved that a committee of three be ap¬ 
pointed to confer with Mr. Ridder and urge him to con¬ 
tinue as President. Carried. 

The Acting President appointed Judge Parker, Mr. 
Greenhut and Mr. Ritter as such committee. The com¬ 
mittee retired and conferred with Mr. Ridder, and upon its 
return reported that Mr. Ridder felt that in justice to him¬ 
self he must adhere to his resignation. 

Judge Parker therefore moved that Mr. Ridder's letter 
be taken from the table. Carried. 

It was voted that Mr. Ridder's resignation as President 
be accepted with deep and sincere regret. 

Judge Parker nominated Gen. Howard Carroll for Presi¬ 
dent in place of Hon. Herman Ridder, resigned, and Gen. 
Carroll was unanimously elected. 

Mr. Ritter moved that Col. Henry W. Sackett be desig¬ 
nated as Presiding V ice-President in accordance with the 
by-laws (page 16 of the Minutes). Carried unanimously. 

Application for City Funds 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter reported that since the last meeting 
of the Trustees the Ways and Means Committee had ap¬ 
peared before the Board of Estimate and the Board of 
Aldermen in favor of an appropriation of $100,000 by the 
City, but the outlook for that amount was not promising. 
Mr. Ritter and others urged the members of the Board to 
attend the meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, 
July 7, to represent the sentiment of the Commission on 
the subject. 

It was voted that the Secretary communicate Mr. Ritter’s 
request to the members of the Board of Trustees. 

On motion of Prof. Fleck, the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee was authorized to take such action as the exigencies 
required in regard to the appropriation desired from the 
City. 


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State Funds 

Mr. Ritter laid before the Trustees the following letter: 

State of New York — Comptroller’s Office, Albany. 

June 26, 1914. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, 

Chairman, Ways and Means Committee, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission. 

Dear Sir: 

Your letter of the 25th instant, addressed to Hon. J. W. 
Stevens, Mayor of the City of Albany, relative to the $100,- 
000.00 appropriated by the Legislature of 1914 for your 
Commission, has been referred to this Department. In 
reply thereto, this Department begs to advise you that there 
was an appropriation of $100,000.00 made by Chapter 530 
of the Laws of 1914, for the purpose of commemorating 
the three hundredth anniversary of the chartered commerce 
of New York, and this amount is now available. If it 
should be decided that any portion of this money is to be 
advanced to your Commission for the purpose mentioned, it 
would be necessary for you to furnish this Department with 
a certified copy of the resolution authorizing the regularly 
elected officers to sign the requisition and the vouchers. If 
you do not desire to have the money advanced but prefer to 
have the vouchers sent this Department for payment direct, 
it will be necessary to have the vouchers properly approved 
before payment can be made. In case the advance is made, 
it would be charged to your Commission, with the under¬ 
standing that vouchers in proper form were to be rendered, 
to be credited against the advance. It might be well for 
you to communicate direct with this Department what the 
Commission desire done in the matter. 

Very truly yours, 

William Sohmer, 

Comptroller. 

By J. A. Wendell, 

Deputy Comptroller. 

Mr. Ritter offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That the President or Presiding Vice-President 
and the Secretary be authorized to make requisition upon 
the State Comptroller for $10,000 of the appropriation of 
$100,000 made by the Legislature at its recent extraordinary 
session for the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com- 


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mission, and that the J reasurer of the Commission be au¬ 
thorized to receipt therefor. 

1 he resolution was adopted. 

Educational Institutions Committee 

Mr. Dc Witt, in behalf of Chancellor Brown, Chairman 
of the Committee on Education, presented the following 
estimate of the requirements of his committee. 

Essay Competition 

High schools and academies — 2 medals to each 
of 1,000 schools, each medal to cost approxi¬ 
mately 50 cents. 

Colleges — one medal to each of about 50 col¬ 
leges, at about $1 apiece. 

Postage, printing, etc. 

Lectures 

5 lectures by prominent Europeans at one thou¬ 
sand dollars each . 

5 lectures by prominent Americans at one hun¬ 
dred dollars apiece. 

10 special lectures. 


$1,000 

50 

200 

5,000 

500 

250 


Total 


$7,000 


In addition to these recommendations, Provost William 
H. Carpenter, appointed to act as a sub-committee on a 
Permanent Educational Memorial, recommends that $100,- 
000 be raised, the income of which would be used to sup¬ 
port exchange professorships in commercial subjects be¬ 
tween our own and foreign countries. 

Dean Joseph French Johnson, who was appointed a sub¬ 
committee on Commercial Exhibit, recommended that such 
an exhibit be held as a part of the General Exhibit at Grand 
Central Palace; but because of the lateness of the date it 
seems impracticable to attempt to carry out Dean Johnson's 
recommendations. The recommendations for the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibit called for an expenditure of ten thousand 
dollars. 

Referred to the Ways and Means Committee to report 
back to the Trustees. 

Memorials Committee 

Dr. Hooper, Chairman of the Committee on Memorials, 
recalled the fact that his resolution authorizing the pay- 












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ment of $5,000 toward the revision of the Watergate de¬ 
signs had been laid over at the last meeting because of the 
uncertainty about the amount of available funds. As the 
financial situation had not changed since then, he did not 
feel like asking to take the resolution from the table. He 
recapitulated the circumstances of the committee’s report 
and its approval by the Trustees, and he asked the Board to 
bear them in mind and to keep faith in the matter. 


Brooklyn Pageant 

Mr. Berri referred to an elaborate pageant which was 
being organized in Brooklyn independently of this Com¬ 
mission and said he had promised to bring it to the atten¬ 
tion of the Trustees. It would be a wonderful affair, and 
he hoped that at the proper time the Trustees would give 
due consideration to a request for some support from this 
Commission. 

Various Reports 

Several committees, through their chairmen, reported 
progress, and there were brief discussions upon them, but 
no action. 

The Board then adjourned for one week. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

July 8, 1914 

The eighteenth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the li¬ 
brary of Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William Street, 
New York City, on Wednesday, July 8, 1914, at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, presiding; Mr. 
Louis A. Ames, Hon. William Berri, Mr. Henry L. Bo- 
gert, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, 
Com. Fred B. Dalzell, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Charles 
H. Fuller, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Cornelius G. 
Kolff, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
William C. Muschenheim, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. E. P. 
V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt and Dr. Edward W. Stitt. 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. R. Ross 
Appleton, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Hon. N. Tay¬ 
lor Phillips, and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were 
excused. 

The minutes of the meeting of July 1st were read and 
approved. 


Presiding Vice-Presidents Designated 

The Secretary read a letter from Col. Henry W. Sackett 
regretting that on account of his recent absence abroad, 
during which he met with an automobile accident, and an 
accumulation of professional business, it was impracticable 
for him to accept the position of Presiding Vice-President 


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in pursuance of the action of the Trustees at their last 
meeting. 

Col. Sackett’s declination was accepted with great regret. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter moved that Hon. Alton B. Parker be 
designated as Presiding Vice-President. Carried. 

It was also voted that in the absence of both the Presi¬ 
dent and of the Presiding Vice-President above designated, 
Dr. George F. Kunz he designated as Presiding Vice- 
President. 


Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee, reported that as the result of the application by 
his Committee, the Finance Committee of the Board of 
Aldermen had, on the previous day, reported favorably a 
resolution recommending that the Board of Estimate make 
an appropriation of $25,000 for the purposes of this Com¬ 
mission ; but as the resolution required unanimous consent, 
it failed to pass the Board. 

It was voted that the Ways and Means Committee be re¬ 
quested to continue its efforts to secure an appropriation 
from the City. 


Concentration of tlie Celebration 

Mr. Ames suggested the concentration of the celebration 
within a short period in the fall. 

Dr. Stitt approved of the idea of a small celebration but 
favored pageants during the summer. 

Mr. Lee said he had planned local festivals in July and 
August as that was the best time for them. 

Commodore Dalzell suggested that the adjustment of 
dates be referred to the Ways and Means Committee. 

After a further discussion the subject was passed over 
without action. 


Apportionment of Funds 

The foregoing discussion having developed the fact that 
the Committees were unable to proceed without an appor¬ 
tionment of funds for their use, the Secretary suggested 


July 8, 1914 219 

that the apportionment he made. In this connection he read 
the following letter: 

City of Albany, 

Office of the Mayor. 

July 2, 1914. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman, 

Plan and Scope Committee, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

New York City. 

My dear Mr. Ritter: 

Replying further to the letter of Secretary Hall of June 
18th, asking me, as Chairman of the Upper Hudson Com¬ 
mittee, to submit in writing a preliminary estimate of the 
money required for the part of the celebration in charge of 
that committee, I beg to advise you as follows: 

I sent out thirty-three letters to the Mayors of cities and 
Presidents of villages on that committee and from that 
thirty-three have received only six replies. 

The proposition does not seem to meet with favor. 

The City of Troy is planning to celebrate its 100th Anni¬ 
versary this coming Fall and, therefore, they do not care 
to devote any time to the celebration of your Commission. 

The City of Albany is now undergoing extensive recon¬ 
struction, by which I mean the improvement of the river 
front and repaving of various streets and as a result of all 
this work the city is very much torn up. It is the opinion 
of the Albany officials with whom I have talked that owing 
to the small appropriation the celebration should be con¬ 
fined to Manhattan Island. If, however, you think that we 
can co-operate with you to make the celebration a success, 
we shall be pleased to do so. 

The six members of the committee who have replied to 
me are William Ziegler, President of the Village of Sauger- 
ties who says that the people of his community are entirely 
unacquainted with the proceedings of the Commission and 
he doubts if any money can be raised by popular subscrip¬ 
tion and he is of the opinion that very little can be done 
there. 

The Hon. John C. Corwin, Mayor of Newburgh, writes 
that he has not given the matter sufficient thought to ad¬ 
vance any ideas on the subject but is willing to attend a 
meeting in Albany should one be called. 

Louis Van Hoesen, Mayor of Hudson, does not think 
that the matter warrants a meeting of the Upper Hudson 
Committee. It is the purpose of his city to hold a public 


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meeting under the auspices of the D. A. R. Chapter if pos¬ 
sible and if they are allowed any money will spend it for 
a small tablet to be placed in a small park which overlooks 
the river. 

The President of the Village of Mechanicville, John F. 
Green, is of the opinion that the state appropriation is too 
small for all the communities involved and that if they par¬ 
ticipate they will have to raise their own fund. 

The Hon. James S. Calkins, Mayor of Cohoes, N. Y., 
writes that he is not familiar with the matter but is willing 
to join with us in making the celebration a success. 

The President of the village of Wappinger Falls advised 
me that whatever money necessary to carry out a suitable 
program could probably be raised by public subscription. 
The President of the village is Edward M. Drake. 

Very truly yours, 

Joseph W. Stevens, 

Mayor. 


The Secretary stated that the only other reply from a 
Chairman outside of the City of New York was dated June 
26th from the Mayor of Syracuse, Chairman of the Erie 
Canal Committee, who stated that his Committee had not 
yet held a meeting, but without any plans or estimates sug¬ 
gested $15,000 or $20,000 for his Committee. 

As a basis for discussion, the Secretary submitted a sug¬ 
gestion for an apportionment which he had prepared since 
his arrival at this meeting. The sums mentioned therein, he 
said, were intended to include expenditures already made 
as well as expenditures yet to be made by the respective 
committees. After reading it and making a few changes at 
the suggestion of the Trustees, it was as follows: 


Athletics Committee. $5,000 

Auditing Committee. ^00 

Commercial Exhibits Committee. 10,000 

Commercial Exhibits Director. 7 * 5 °° 

Educational Institutions Committee. >000 

Flag and Poster Committee. 500 

Finance Committee. ^00 

Historical Meetings Committee. 1,000 

Illuminations Committee. 10,000 

Local Festivals Committee. icpooo 

Medal and Badge Committee. 1,000 













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Memorials Committee . $S,ooo 

Museum Exhibits Committee. 5,000 

Music Festivals Committee. 5,000 

Naval Events Committee. 5,000 

Panama Canal Committee. 1,000 

Peace Centennial Committee. *1,000 

Publicity Committee. 2,soo 

Street Parades Committee. 5,000 

Headquarters, printing, stenographer, etc. 5,000 

Secretary, 10 months beginning December 1, 

l 9 l Z . 5 >°°° 


$95 0 00 


Mr. E. P. V. Ritter moved that the apportionment of 
$5,000 to the Memorials Committee be eliminated and laid 
on the table. 

Mr. Ritter and Mr. MacKinnon spoke in favor of the 
motion. Mr. Herman Ridder, Dr. Hooper, Commodore 
Dalzell, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Kolff and Mr. Hall spoke against 
it. Mr. Ames was in favor of the Memorials Committee 
apportionment if it were paid out of the Subscription Fund. 
After a general discussion Mr. Ritter withdrew his motion. 

The discussion then continued on the general subject of 
the apportionment. 

Mr. Berri inquired whether the Governor had approved 
the appropriation of $100,000 for the Commission under 
any misinformation as to an appropriation by the City. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter replied that when the Committee went 
to Albany, the Governor was told that the City had not yet 
made any appropriation but would be asked for a like 
amount. Mr. Ritter said that there were “ no strings " to 
the appropriation. 

Mr. Berri suggested that there be a Committee to super¬ 
vise expenditures before they were made. 

Upon Dr. Hooper’s suggestion it was voted that before 
any proposed contract shall be executed or any proposed 
expenditure shall be authorized, the proposed contract or ex¬ 
penditure shall have the approval of the President, the 
Presiding Vice-President, the Secretary, the Chairman of 















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the Finance Committee and the Chairman of the Ways and 
Means Committee or of any three of them. 

The apportionment as above printed was then approved 
without a dissenting vote. 

Miscellaneous Business 

Prof. Fleck called attention to the overlapping jurisdic¬ 
tion of the Music Festivals Committee and the Local Fes¬ 
tivals Committee in some of their plans ; and the matter w r as 
referred to the Chairmen of the two Committees and the 
Secretary for adjustment. 

Mr. Muschenheim spoke briefly on the subject of the co¬ 
operation of the hotel men with the Commission. He said 
that in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909 the hotel 
men were exempt from cash subscriptions in consideration 
of their entertaining the official guests without charge. He 
said that that was the attitude of the hotels toward the 
Tercentenary Celebration. 

The meeting then adjourned for one week. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


The New York 
Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission 


223 


OFFICERS 


(Revised to July 14, 1914) 

President 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row, New York. 


Vice-Presidents 

1st Presiding, Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

2d Presiding, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 


Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 
Hon. Joseph IT. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 


Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
Arthur Williams 
William Ziegler, Jr. 

(One vacancy) 

Treasurer 


Messrs, j. P. Morgan & Co. 


Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.I 1 .D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 

Capt. A. H. Stoddard. 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York. 




224 


COMMISSION 

Members by Apjjointment 


(Revised to July 14, 1914. 

Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Lieut C. J. Ahern 
Newton D. Ailing 
Louis Annin Antes 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John D. Archbold 
John Aspcgren 
Vincent Astor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Edward P. Bates 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 
Marcus Benjamin Ph. D., Sc. D. 
Tunis G. Bergen 
Hon. William Bcrri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Edward J. Berwind 
Union N. Bethcll 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogcrt 
Robert W. Boissevain 
George C. Boldt 
Reginald Pelham Bolton 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonncll 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
William A. Boring 
E. B. Boynton 
Nicholas F. Brady 
William C. Breed 


Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

Herbert L. Bridgman 
Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc.D., 
Ph.D. 

C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D. LL. D. 
James W. Brown 
Andrew F. Burleigh 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL. D., 
Lift. D. 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Herman H. Cammann. 

Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 
William Plamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Chit re hill 
John Claflin 

Henry Clews, Ph. D., LL. D. 
Edward K. Cone 
Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 
Hugh Connolly 
Ccsare Conti 
Edward C. Converse 
John C. Cook 
Robert Grier Cooke 
P. H. Coombs 
William E. Corey 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Clarkson Cowl 
Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 
C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 

Rev. R. Fulton Crary, D.D. 
John B. Creighton 


Members of the Commission 


225 


Hon. John D. Crirnmins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
W illiam N. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Hon. H. H. Curran 
R. Fulton Cutting, LL.D. 
Charles F. Daly 
Com. Fred. B. Dazcll 
H. W. Dearborn 
Albert de Cerriea 
Hon. Robert W . de Forest 
John D. DeFriest 
Richard Delafield 
William C. Demorest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
John Dowd 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling 
Edward A. Drake 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Hon. William B. Ellison 
Amos F. Eno 
Hon. John E. Eustis 
Clarence L. Fabre 
Samuel IV. Fairchild 
His Eminence John Cardinal 
Farley 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Berthold Flesch. M.D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 
W. C. Freeman 
Henry C. Frick 
Charles H. Fuller 


Michael Furst 
Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 
Elbert H. Gary 
L. B. Gawtry 
James Gayley 
Charles E. Gehring 
John F. Geis 
Isaac Gimbel 
George J. Gould 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
J. B. Greenhut 

Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D. 

Flenry E. Gregory 

T. Greidanus 

Murray Guggenheim 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

William H. Hale, Ph.D. 

Edward Hagaman Hall L.H.D. 

Maj. Isaac A. Hall 

Matthew P. Halpin 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

Hon. John Hays Hammond 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Ernest Harrier 

Hon. A. Augustus Plealy 

Col. H. O. S. Heistand, U.S.A. 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Lansing C. Holden 

Richard G. Hollaman 

Franklin IV. Hoofer, LL. D. 

R. H. Hooper 

John J. Hopper 

Major F. L. V. Hoppin 

Walter B. Hopping 

Roy W. Howard 

Hon. William B. Howland 

Hon. Charles E. Hughes 

Andrew B. Humphrey 

Archer M. Huntington, Litt. D. 

G. Murray Hurlbert 


226 


Members of the Commission 


David H. Hyman 
Arthur Curtiss James 
A. E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D. C. S. 

Prof. Henry P. Johnston 

William A. Johnston 

J. Harris Jones 

Widen Jouvaud 

Otto H. Kahn 

Robert C. Kammerer 

Hon. Benjamin A. Keiley 

Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 

Cornelius G. Kolff 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Hans Lagerlof 

Charles R. Lamb 

Leopold L. Langrock 

Edward Lauterbach, LL.D. 

William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
Nelson P. Lewis 
W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 

R. Fulton Ludlow 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
Hon. Alrick H. Man 
William A. Marble 
Hon. Marcus M. Marks 
Hon. Douglas Mathewson 
William H. Maxwell, Ph. D., 

LL. D. 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Hon. Charles J. McCormack 
Alfred J. McGrath 
John J. McKelvey 

S. C. Mead 

Rev. H. Pereira Mendes, D.D. 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 


L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
Henry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M.D. 

Frank A. Munsey 

Joseph Brady Murray 

William C. Muschenheim 

Adolph I. Namm 

William A. Nash 

George L. Naught 

George W. Neville 

Hon. William*W. Niles 

E A. Norman 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 

Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 

Hon. James A. O’Gorman 

Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 

Eben E. Olcott 

Robert Olyphant 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

John E. Parsons 

Wm. Barclay Parsons, LL.D. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. Frank L. Polk 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 

John A. Poynton 

Frederick B. Pratt 

Hon. William A. Pendergast 

Charles W. Price 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 

William E. Pulsifer 

A. A. Raven 

H. H. Raymond 

Norman B. Ream 

Fred A. Reed 

William C. Reick 

Charles E. Reid 


Members of the Commission 


227 


Daniel G. Reid 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
George L. Rives, LL.D. 
Rev. Spencer S. Roche 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
F. Augustus Schermerhorn 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlesinger 
Walter Scott 
George Martin Seeley 
William B. Seldon 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Col. John L. Shepherd 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

William Simmons 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
George Carson Smith 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
Nelson S. Spencer 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
John A. Stewart 
Hon. Wm. R. Stewart 
Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D. D. 
Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 
Melville E. Stone 


Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Jacob Stumpf 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Henry W. Taft 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Samuel Untermeyer 
Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 

Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Hon. Judson G. Wall 
Henry Walters 
Hon. John Wanainaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
"Whitney Warren 
Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 
Hon. James L. Wells 
Edmund Wetmore 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
W. H. Wiley 
Hon. William R. Willcox 
Arthur Williams 
Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D. 
T. S. Williams 
Francis M. Wilson 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Charles B. Wolffram 
William J. Wollman 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Major James Otis Woodward 
F. W. Wool worth 
James C. Young 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


228 


Members of the Commission 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 


Albany . Hon. Joseph W. Stevens 

Amsterdam .Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn .Hon. C. W. Brister 

Beacon ...Hon. J. A. brost 

Binghamton . Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo .Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua .Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes . Hon. Janies S. Calkins 

Corning .Hon. Lewis N. Lattin 

Cortlandt .Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk .Hon. J. T. Sullivan 

Elmira .Hon. Harry N. Hoffman 

Fulton .Hon. Frank E. Fox 

Geneva .Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Griffing 

Gloversville .Hon. G. W. Schermerhorn 

Hornell .Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . Hon. Louis Van Hoescn 

Ithaca .Hon Thomas Tree 

Jamestown .Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown .Hon. Clarence W. Smith 

Kingston . Hon. Palmer Canfield, Jr. 

Lackawanna .Hon. John I. Sidmey 

Little Falls .Hon. Frank H. Shall 

9 

Lockport .Hon. George A. Brock 

Middletown .Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh . Hon. John B. Corzvin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Edward Stetson Griffing 

New York .Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

Niagara Falls .Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda .Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh .Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. W. H. Simpson 

Oneida i.Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta .Hon. Joseph S. Lunn 

Oswego .Hon. Thomas F. Hennessey 

Plattsburgh .Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. Frank Lybolt 

Poughkeepsie . Hon..Daniel W. Wilber 

Rensselaer . Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester .Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

Rome .Hon. H. C. Midlam 

Schenectady .Hon. J. Teller Schoolcraft 














































Members of the Commission 


229 


Syracuse . 
Tonawanda 

Troy . 

Utica 

W at crt omm 
Watervliet 
Yonkers ., 


Hon. Louis Will 
Hon. Albert J. Cordes 
Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 
Hon. James D. Smith 
Hon. Isaac R. Breen 
Hon. Edwin W. Joslin 
Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton . 

Catskill . 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth . 

Cornwall . 

Coxsackie . 

Croton-on-Hudson 

Dobbs Ferry . 

Fishkill . 

Fort Edward . 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw . 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington . 

Mechanicville . 

North Tarrytown.. 

Nyack . 

Ossining . 

Peekskill . 

Piermont . 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck . 

Saugerties . 

Schuylerville . 

South Glens Falls... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater . 

Tarrytown . 

Tivoli . 

Upper Nyack .. 

Victory Mills . 

Wappingers Falls ... 

Waterford . 

West Haverstraw .. 


Hon. William M. Collier 
Hon. Christian Peters 
Hon. Willis A. Haines 
Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
Hon. J. Finley Work 
Hon. William B. Cocks 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q.. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. John F. Green 
Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 
Hon. Thomas H. Goundry 
Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
Hon. William R. Palmer 
Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 





















































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Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

July 15, 1914 

The nineteenth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William street, 
New York City, on Wednesday, July 15, 1914, at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Presiding Vice- 
President, in the chair; Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Robert 
Grier Cooke, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. Wil¬ 
liam C. Muschenheim, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward 
P. V. Ritter, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, and Hon. Daniel W. 
Wilber. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Louis Annin 
Ames, Hon. R. Ross Appleton, Hon. John D. Crimmins, 
Com. Fred B. Dalzell, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. 
Benedict J. Greenhut, Lion. William B. Howland, Dr. 
Franklin W. Hooper, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. Eben E. 
Olcott, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. 
Henry R. Towne, and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

The Secretary, in behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
Treasurer, presented the following report, showing the con¬ 
dition of the Subscription Fund on July 15, 1914: 


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Debit 

Received for expenses, to July i, 1914. 

Received for medals, to July 1, 1914. 

Received for medals, July 1 to July 15. 

Received from Finance Committee to July 1, 1914. 

Received from Finance Committee, July 1 to July 15.. 


Credit 

Disbursements to July 1, 1914. $3*165 63 

30. Tiffany & Co,, medal dies. 500 00 

31. Postal Telegraph Cable Co., service.. 22 96 

32. A. H. Stoddard, December salary... 625 00 


$1. 800 00 
431 10 
10 00 
1.370 00 
1.995 00 


$5. 606 10 


$ 4*313 59 


Balance on hand July 15, 1914 


$1, 292 51 


Of the foregoing balance, $431.10 is reserved for medals. 
There is also due to A. H. Stoddard $1,875, 011 account of 
the $2,500 for four months' salary approved at the meeting 
of July 1, 1914. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Polhemus Printing Co., printing. $2 00 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. 5 60 


$7 60 

General Carroll’s Acceptance as President 

The Secretary read a cablegram from Gen. Carroll ac¬ 
cepting his election as President of the Commission and 
suggesting that the Lord Mayor of London, and the Mayors 
of The Hague, Berlin, Paris, and possibly others be in¬ 
vited to the celebration. 


Foreign Mayors Invited 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter moved that the Secretary cable to 
Gen. Carroll to invite the Mayors as above suggested, also 
the Mayors of other national capitals if he deemed it de¬ 
sirable ; and to say that the Commission would entertain 
them at its expense after their arrival and while in New 
York. Carried. 















July 15, 1914 


233 


Nominated for Appointment on the Commission 

A letter was read from Dr. Hooper recommending the 
following gentlemen for appointment on the Commission: 

Mr. William R. Mead, Architect, of McKim, Mead & 
White, 101 Park avenue. 

Mr. Austin W. Lord, Professor of Architecture at Col¬ 
umbia University, and member of firm of Lord & Hewlett, 
345 Fifth avenue, and 

Mr. Henry Bacon, 101 Park avenue, Architect for the 
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter recommended the following gentle¬ 
men for appointment on the Commission: 

Mr. Julius D. Mahr, President of the Mercantile Ex¬ 
change, 8 Harrison street, and 

Mr. Anthony E. Stillger, President of the Chelsea Ex¬ 
change Bank, 266 West 34th street. 

Dr. Stitt moved that the above named gentlemen be 
recommended to the Mayor for appointment on the Com¬ 
mission. Carried. 

Resignations 

The Secretary presented the resignation of Mr. de 
Aguero as a Trustee and member of the Commission, 
dated July 8th, and it was accepted with regret. 

The Secretary, referring to his request at the meeting of 
June 24th to be relieved of the duties of Secretary, again 
tendered his resignation as Secretary and Trustee; but the 
resignation was laid on the table and he was requested to 
reconsider. 

Election of Trustee 

Mr. William Nelson Cromwell, who had shown his in¬ 
terest in the Commission by a generous subscription, was 
elected a member of the Board of Trustees. 


General Financial Matters 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter urged the necessity of personal co¬ 
operation by the Trustees in raising subscriptions; the Sec¬ 
retary was requested to write to the Trustees and ask them 
to devote some time to helping in this direction. 


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Minutes of Trustees 


Claim of Mr. Risse and Others 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter said he had received from Mr. Charles 
W. Sinnott of 41 Park Row, a letter dated July 14, stating 
that he expected to present a claim to the Commission in 
behalf of Mr. Louis A. Risse and others for services 
rendered at the request of Mr. A. H. Stoddard. Mr. Ritter 
said he had a waiver from the gentlemen named and that 
they had no claim. 

Mr. Ritter was asked to furnish Mr. Stoddard with a 
copy of the letter and to request a written reply before the 
next meeting of the Trustees. 


Local Festivals 

Dr. Stitt, a member of the Committee on Local Pestivals, 
said that the schools would not open until September 14, 
and that it was desirable to have certain events during the 
summer. He spoke of the tentative plan of having local 
festivals at three centers, one in Brooklyn, one in Rich¬ 
mond Borough and one in Bronx Borough in August and 
asked the Trustees’ approval. 

The suggestion was approved. 


Indian Exhibition Approved 

The Board gave the privilege of the floor to Dr. Joseph 
K. Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker expeditions 
among the Indians, who presented in writing a proposal to 
hold an Indian exhibition in the Grand Central Palace, 
without expense to the Commission; an admission fee of 
50 cents for adults to be charged; and the net proceeds, if 
any, to be devoted to the National Indian Memorial Asso¬ 
ciation for the erection of the Indian Memorial at Port 
Wadsworth, Staten Island. 

Prof. Fleck moved that the Board approve of holding the 
proposed exhibition under the auspices of the Commission, 
provided it was without expense to the Commission. 
Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned for one week. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary 


235 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

July 22, 1914 


The twentieth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William 
street, New York City, Wednesday, July 22, 1914, at 2 p. m. 

Roll Cali 

Present: Presiding Vice President, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. R. Ross Apple- 
ton, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Mr. 
Henry Russell Drowne, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. Cornelius G. 
Kolff, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
William C. Muschenheim (by Mr. F. A. Muschenheim), 
Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Dr. E. W. Stitt, and Mr. Arthur 
Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Robert 
Grier Cooke, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Mr. William Nelson 
Cromwell, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Dr. John H. Finley, 
Hon. Robert L. Harrison, Mr. William J. Lee, Hon. Alton 
B. Parker, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Hon. Herman Ridder, 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, and Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, and 
they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of July 15,. 1914, were read 
and approved. 



236 


Minutes of Trustees 


Certified Public Accountant 

The Secretary said that the report of the Treasurer would 
be presented by Mr. J. J. Baird, C.A., who had been en¬ 
gaged by the Secretary from the firm of Patterson, Teele 
& Dennis, Certified Public Accountants, of No. 30 Broad 
street, to take charge of the accounting of the Commission. 
The firm had been recommended by Dr. Kunz and the 
selection of Mr. Baird had been approved by the Treasurer 
in the following letter. 


New York, July 17, 1914. 

E. H. Hall, Esq., Secretary, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, 

New York City. 

Dear Sir. — We acknowledge receipt of your favor of 
even date introducing Mr. John J. Baird, C.A., whom you 
have selected to handle the accounts of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission. 

As Treasurer of this Commission we beg to state that 
the above arrangement is satisfactory to us. 

Yours very truly, 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

The Secretary stated that the arrangement with Messrs. 
Patterson, Teele & Dennis was that the Commission should 
pay $15 a day for the services of Mr. Baird for actual 
time of service. 

It was voted that the engagement of Mr. Baird be ap¬ 
proved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

Mr. Baird then presented the following report. 

New York, July 21, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commision: 

Gentlemen.— In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on July 21, 1914. 


July 22, 1914 


237 


RECEIPTS 

To 

July 15, 1914 


Subscriptions for Expenses 

Direct. $1,800 00 

Ways and means committee... 3,365 00 

Medal subscriptions. 441 10 


July 15 Total 

to date to date 

. $1,800 00 

$250 00 3,615 00 

. 441 10 


Total receipts 


$5,856 10 


DISBURSEMENTS 

Headquarters Expenses . $1,827 88 *$7 60 $1,835 48 

Committee Expenses 

Commercial exhibits. 

Historical meetings. 

Museum exhibits. 

Medals and badges. 

Ways and means. 

Salaries 

Director of Commercial 

Exhibits. $625 00 t$625 00 $1,250 00 

Total disbursements. $4,946 19 


Balance in bank — July 21, 1914. $909 91 

Of this balance there is reserved for medals $441.10. 


$1,225 75 
77 25 
8 50 
526 25 
22 96 


1,225 75 
77 25 
8 50 
526 25 
22 96 


ACCRUED LIABILITIES UNPAID 

Salary of Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 
from February 1, 1914, at $625 per month, accrued to 

June 30, 1914. $3,125 00 

Salary of Secretary from December 1, 1913, at $500 per 

month, accrued to June 30, 1914. 3,500 00 


The report was received and ordered on file. 


Depository Approved 

On motion of Mr. Appleton and pursuant to section 6 
of article II of the By-laws (page 16) it was voted that 
the Treasurer be authorized to deposit all moneys of the 
Commission with Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 


Apportionment of Funds 

On motion of Mr. Drowne it was voted that the moneys 
received from the sale of medals be added to the apportion¬ 
ment of funds to the Medal Committee. 


* Stationery and office supplies, $2.00; Mutigraphing notices, etc., $5.60. 
t Salary for January, 1914. 






































238 


Minutes of Trustees 


On motion of Mr. Norman it was voted that not to ex¬ 
ceed fifteen per cent of the aggregate amount of the sub¬ 
scriptions secured by the Finance Committee and Ways 
and Means Committee pursuant to the resolution of June 
24, 1914 (page 208), be apportioned to the Finance Com¬ 
mittee and Ways and Means Committee jointly for the 
expenses of their work. 


Requisition for State Funds 

The Secretary reported that pursuant to the instructions 
of the Trustees (page 214), the Presiding Vice President 
and the Secretary had made requisition upon the Comptroller 
for $10,000 of the State Appropriation; but the Comp¬ 
troller had requested that the requisition be made out on a 
blank form by which the signers assumed personal liability; 
and as they were unwilling to assume such personal liability 
the matter of the requisition was in abeyance. 

It was voted to leave the matter in statu quo until it 
could be determined if the State funds could not be drawn 
on approved vouchers, rather than by requisition of lump 
sums to be accounted for afterwards. 

Finance and Ways and Means Committees 

Mr. Appleton, Chairman of the Finance Committee, re¬ 
quested authority to employ a Secretary for the Finance and 
Ways and Means Committees. 

Mr. Ames moved that the Finance Committee and Ways 
and Means Committee jointly be authorized to employ Mr. 
Marshall B. Van Cott as Secretary, for four weeks’ be¬ 
ginning July 22, 1914, at $75 a week. Carried. 


Music Festivals Estimate 

Prof. Fleck, Chairman of the Music Festivals Committee, 
submitted an estimate of expenditures for fourteen con¬ 
certs on fourteen evenings, from September 14 to Septem¬ 
ber 28, in the auditoriums of the College of the City of 
New York, the Washington Irving High School, and similar 
centers. The estimate amounted to $2500 a week or $5000 
in all — the amount apportioned to that Committee. 


July 22, 1914 


239 


The general plan was approved and the estimate was 
referred to the special Committee on Estimates appointed 
by resolution of July 8 (pp. 221-22) to take the usual 
course. 

Cifieial Badge Adopted 

Mr. Drowne, Chairman of the Medal and Badge Com¬ 
mittee, submitted a design for the Official Badge. The 
design represented a circular medalion, one and one-half 
inches in diameter, bearing the same design as the Official 
Medal reduced (page 182) suspended from a ribbon of 
three vertical stripes of the colors of the Commission (page 
140) the whole depending from a bar bearing the word 
Commission. 

It was voted that the design be approved, subject to the 
approval of the Medal and Badge Committee; that the 
medalion be struck with both the obverse and reverse de¬ 
signs of the Official Medal, instead of one side only; and 
that the badge be not given to the members of the Commis¬ 
sion but sold to them at a price to be determined hereafter. 

Mr. Drowne also submitted an estimate of $140 from 
Tiffany & Co. for cutting the dies for the badge. 

The cutting of the dies was approved, subject to the 
approval of the special Committee on Estimates to whom 
the estimate was referred. 

Poster Design 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Committee on Flag and 
Poster, asked that the Committee be authorized to use the 
$500 apportioned to his Committee to secure a poster design 
from a recognized artist to be selected by the Committee, 
and not by competition. 

After a brief discussion of the relative advantages of 
selecting an artist and holding a competition, the plan 
recommended by Mr. Ames was approved, and the sug¬ 
gested use of the fund apportioned to the Committee was 
approved subject to the approval of the Committee on 
Estimates. 

The subject of means for the printing and distribution 
of posters was discussed without action. 


240 


Minutes of Trustees 


Solicitation of Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial Ex¬ 
hibits Committee, submitted a proposed contract with Mr. 
W. T. Blaine of 13 Park avenue, New York, appointing 
Mr. Blaine manager for the sale of space at the Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits and agreeing to pay him for the services 
of himself and his solicitors thirty per cent of proceeds of 
sales of floor space. 

The general plan of the contract was approved, subject 
to approval by the Contract Committee as to form, and by 
the Committee on Estimates as to the expenditures. 

Governor to Attend Opening of Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter laid before the Board a letter from 
Capt. Reynolds King Townsend, Military Secretary of 
Gov. Glynn, dated Albany July 17th, stating that it would 
give Gov. Glynn pleasure to be present and open the ex¬ 
position of this Commission at the Grand Central Palace 
on Saturday, September 5th, at 3 p. m. 

Panama Canal Exhibit 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. W. Leon Pepper- 
man, Assistant to Mr. Shouts, Chairman of the Panama 
Canal Committee, stating that Mr. Shouts was abroad and 
asking if the suggestion of an exhibition of Panama Canal 
models, heretofore referred to (page 143) would meet with 
the approval of the Trustees. 

It was voted that such an exhibition would meet with the 
approval of the Board. 

Eocal Festivals 

Dr. Stitt, a member of the Committee on Local Festivals, 
in the absence of the Chairman, Mr. Lee, reported that 
that Committee had agreed to the use of $2500 of its ap¬ 
propriation of $15,000 for three demonstrations — one at 
Curtis Athletic Field on August 12, to cost $835, one at 
Brooklyn Athletic Field on August 18 to cost $830, and 
one at Crotona Athletic Field, August 19, to cost $830. 

The plan submitted by Dr. Stitt was approved, and the 
estimate was approved subject to the approval of the Com¬ 
mittee on Estimates. 


July 22, 1914 


24! 


Vice Chairman of Naval Events 

At the request of Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Chairman of the 
Committee on Naval Events, and with his approval of the 
selection, Commodore Dalzell was appointed Vice-Chairman 
of the Committee on Naval Events. 

Resignations 

The resignation of Hon. William Berri, dated July 16, 
and of Col. Henry W. Sackett, dated July 17, as Trustees 
and members of the Commission, were laid upon the table 
with the request that they reconsider. 


Claim of Mr. Risse and Others 

The Secretary, referring to the matter under the above 
head in the minutes of the last meeting, stated that he had 
received from Mr. Charles W. Sinnott, counselor-at-law, at 
No. 41 Park Row, a letter dated July 22, 1914, written in 
behalf of Messrs. Louis A. Risse, Benj. F. Hamilton, 
Carroll H. Dunning, Harry J. Marshall and J. S. Chambers, 
who made a claim against the Commission for services 
rendered and expenses incurred in pursuance of alleged 
contracts made with them by Mr. A. H. Stoddard. This 
claim was set forth in the letter of Mr. Sinnott, dated 
July 14, to Mr. E. P. V. Ritter referred to at the last 
meeting, a copy of which had been given to Mr. Stoddard. 
The Secretary also laid before the Board a letter from 
Mr. Stoddard dated July 20, denying various claims ad¬ 
vanced in Mr. Sinnott’s letter of July 14. The Secretary 
stated that Mr. Sinnott’s letter of July 22 further gave 
notice of a proposed lien on Mr. Stoddard’s salary. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter explained the manner in which the 
persons named had been engaged and read their waiver, 
dated April 25, 1914, of any claim for compensation unless 
authorized in writing by the Finance Committee or the 
Ways and Means Committee. He said no such authority 
had been given. 

Mr. Stoddard made a verbal statement to the Board, 
supplementing his letter of July 20. 


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Minutes of Trustees 


It was voted that the matter be referred to the Committee 
on Law and Legislation. 

Elected Member of Commission 

Under the clause of the Charter allowing the Board of 
Trustees to elect not to exceed fifty members of the Com¬ 
mission, (page 11) Mr. William J. Amend of No. 119 
Nassau street was unanimously elected a member of the 
Commission. He was also elected a Trustee. 

Vice-C3iairman of Law Committee 

The Secretary, having stated that Judge Parker, Chair¬ 
man of the Committee on Law and Legislation, was out of 
the city, it was voted that Mr. Bogert be added to that 
Committee, and be appointed Vice Chairman, ad interim. 

The presiding Vice President appointed Mr. William J. 
Amend a member of the Committee on Law and Legislation. 


Executive Session 

The Board then went into executive session but took no 
action therein. 

Authority for Obligations Defined 

Upon the resumption of open session, Mr. Bogert ofifered 
the following resolutions: 

“ Whereas it is of great importance to avoid misunder¬ 
standing and to insure certainty in its transactions and 
engagements; 

“ Now, in order that this may continue to be plainly set 
forth and that in the negotiations, by or on behalf of the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, for pur¬ 
poses of accomplishing its routine work, providing materials 
or procuring the services required for the Celebration, re¬ 
liance may not be placed at any time upon merely verbal 
assurances or stipulations, without requiring written official 
confirmation thereof; and since it is particularly desirable, 
as the principal part of the Celebration approaches and the 
work increases, that the Commission should maintain and 
emphasize its rule of requiring adequate authority for con¬ 
tracts or other acts on its behalf or for its benefit: 

“ Resolved, that the trustees of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission hereby record this expression of 


July 22, 1914 


243 


their continued adherence to the rule above mentioned, dis¬ 
claiming expressly the right of any officer, committee or 
employee, in the past or in the future, to bind or obligate 
the Commission or its representatives by any contract or 
agreement not authorized by the Commission; and further, 
that evidence of the necessary authority must be found in 
the written or printed records of the Commission. 

“ It is further resolved that certain matters, now pre¬ 
sented by or from Captain A. H. Stoddard, be referred to 
the Committee on Commercial Exhibits for investigation 
and a report to the next meeting of the trustees.” 

The resolutions were adopted. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


244 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

July 29, 1914 


The twenty-first meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William 
street, New York City, on Wednesday, July 29, 1914, at 
2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: First Presiding Vice President, Alton B. Parker, 
Second Presiding Vice President, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. 
William J. Amend, Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. 
Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. Mac¬ 
Kinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim (by Mr. F. A. 
Muschenheim), Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Dr. Edward W. Stitt and Mr. 
Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

At the request of Judge Parker, Dr. Kunz presided. 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. R. Ross 
Appleton, Mr. Union N. Bethell, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, 
Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, 
Dr. John H. Finley, Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, Hon. William 
B. Howland, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Jacob H. Schifif, 
Mr. Henry R. Towne, and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they 
were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of July 22, 1914, were" read 
and approved. 



July 29, 1914 


245 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
Mr. J. J. Baird, the accountant, presented the following 
report: 

New York, July 29, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen. — In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on July 28, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 

To 

July 21, 1914 


Subscriptions for Expenses 

Direct. $1,800 00 

Ways and Means Committee.... 3,615 00 

Medal subscriptions. 441 10 


July 21 Total 

to date to date 

. $1,800 00 

$225 00 3,840 00 

. 441 10 


Total receipts 


$5,856 10 $225 00 .. . . . 

. $6,081 10 


DISBURSEMENTS 

Appropria¬ 

tions 

$5,000 00 Headquarters ex¬ 
penses. $1,835 48 . $1,835 48 


$5,000 00 
500 00 
10,000 00 
5,000 00 

500 00 
500 00 

1,000 00 
10,000 00 
15,000 00 
1,000 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 
1,000 00 
1,000 00 
2,500 co 
5,000 00 


Committee Expenses 

Athletics. 

Auditing. 

Commercial exhibits $1,225 75 
Educational institu¬ 
tions . 

Flag and poster. 

Finance and ways 


and means. 22 96 

Historical meetings. 77 25 

Illuminations. 

Local festivals. 

Medal and badge. . . 526 25 

Memorials. 

Museum exhibits.... 8 50 


Music festivals. 

Naval events. 

Panama canal. 

Peace centennial. . . . 

Publicity. 

Street parades. 


1,225 75 


22 96 
77 25 


526 25 
8 50 













































































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Minutes of Trustees 


Salaries 

$5,000 00 Secretary. 

7,500 00 Director of Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits. . $1,250 00 . $1,250 00 

$4,946 19 . 

Total disbursements. $4,946 19 

Balance in bank July 28, 1914. $1 ,134 9 1 


Of this balance there is reserved for medals $441.10. 

LIABILITIES UNPAID 


Salary of Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 
from February 1, 1914, at $625 per month, accrued to 

July 1st. $3,125 00 

Salary of Secretary from December 1, 1913, at $500 per 

month, accrued to July 1st. 3,500 00 

Marshall B. Van Cott, Secretary Finance and Ways and 

Means Committee, one week to July 28th. 75 00 

Tiffany & Co., medals and cases. 406 50 

Headquarters expenses estimated. 100 00 


$7,206 50 


Received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Tiffany & Co., medals for subscribers. $406 50 

Marshall B. Van Cott, Secretary of Finance and Ways and 

Means Committee, salary for week ending July 28. 75 00 


$481 50 


Civil Service Exemption 

The Secretary stated that pursuant to the resolution of 
the Board adopted June 24 (page 210) he had written 
July 13 to the State Civil Service Commission requesting 
that all the employees of this Commission be excepted 
from examination under the provisions of Civil Service 
rule VIII, subdivision 9, and that he had received the fol¬ 
lowing reply: 

































July 29, 1914 


247 


State of New York 
State Civil Service Commission 
Albany 

July 28, 1914. 

E. H. Hall, Esq., 

154 Nassau street, 

New York City. 

Dear Sir. — Your communication of July 13th, relative to 
exception from examination of all employees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, was presented 
to the State Civil Service Commission at meeting held on 
the 23d instant. It was on motion decided that your ap¬ 
plication be approved but instead of making an omnibus 
resolution the Commission prefers to deal with each em¬ 
ployee separately. 

Concerning Mr. Stoddard, Miss Becker and yourself, the 
Commission adopted the following resolution : 

Resolved: That the following named persons to be em¬ 
ployed by the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commis- 
ion as indicated, and pursuant to chapters 313 of the laws of 
1913, and 530 of the laws of 1914, be and hereby are ex¬ 
cepted from examination under the provisions of civil serv¬ 
ice rule VIII, subdivision 9, it appearing that they are per¬ 
sons engaged in private business, and that the services to be 
rendered are technical and expert, and of an occasional and 
exceptional character; provided, however, that no salary 
hereby authorized shall continue after the 31st day of De¬ 
cember, 1914: 

E. H. Hall, Secretary, $500 per month, effective De¬ 
cember 1, 1913; 

A. H. Stoddard, Director of Commercial Exhibits and 
Pageantry, $625 per month, effective December 1, 1913; 

Dorothy E. Becker, stenographer, $18 per week, effective 
May 14, 1913. 

As additional appointments are made, please advise the 
Commission, giving name, title, rate of compensation and 
date of employment, and appropriate resolutions will be 
adopted from time to time. 

Yours very respectfully, 

John C. Birdseye, 

Secretary. 

P. S. Send payrolls or accounts to this office for cer¬ 
tification before payment. 


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State Funds 

The Secretary stated that at his request, Mr. Baird, the 
accountant, had gone to Albany on Monday last and found 
the State authorities very ready to cooperate in facilitating 
the transactions of this Commission. 

Among other things, Mr. Baird took up with the Comp¬ 
troller’s office the matter of the requisition for $10,000 of 
the State appropriation of $100,000 (page 238) and reported 
that the personal liability clause on the blank form of 
requisition supplied by the Comptroller was superseded by 
the provision of the Commission's charter (page 13) which 
says: “ Nor shall any member of the Commission nor any 
Trustee be liable individually for any of its debts or liabil¬ 
ities.'’ 

The Comptroller requires that an original copy of every 
contract be filed with him; and that contracts include the 
proviso that they shall not be executory except with the 
Comptroller's approval. 

The Comptroller will not require competitive bids on 
items of less than $1000, but does require them on items 
of $1000 or more. If bids should not be obtained on items 
of $1000 or more, a satisfactory reason must be given. 

The State Printer will waive small items of stationery 
and printing, but printing of any considerable amount, to 
be paid for out of State funds, must be ordered through the 
State Printing Board. 

Vouchers for disbursements already made out of the 
Subscription Fund were exhibited to the Comptroller’s 
representative, and, after the addition of certain affidavits, 
will be honored by him for reimbursement. Forms of 
vouchers for future use were agreed upon. 

Outline of tlie Celebration 

The Secretary said that he had recently written to the 
President, Gen. Howard Carroll, abroad, giving him an 
outline of the Celebration as it had taken shape to the 
present time. He read the outline to the Trustees, asking 
for any corrections or additions that should be made. No 
changes were suggested. The outline is as follows: 


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249 


Opening 

1 he period of celebration was opened on March 27, 1914 

the 300th anniversary of the first general trading charter 
— by a Commemorative Meeting in the Hotel Astor which 
was addressed by Mayor Mitchel and others. O11 the same 
day, commemorative exercises were held on the site of the 
proposed National Indian Monument in Fort Wadsworth, 
Staten Island, at which was enacted a pageant representing 
the beginning of trade between the Dutch and Indians. 

Various events are planned between the foregoing date 
and Monday, October 12th, Columbus Day — Sunday, 
October 11, being the 300th anniversary of the first special 
charter for trading to this region. 

Local Festivals 

(William J. Lee, Supervisor of Public Recreation, Chair¬ 
man.) 

With a view to bringing the celebration close to the 
people of all nationalities, a series of local festivals 
will be held in different parts of the city. They will 
include music, pageants and folk-dancing, particularly by 
the young people. On August 12, there will be a celebration 
of this sort at Curtis Athletic Field, Staten Island; on 
August 18, at Brooklyn Athletic Field; and on August 19, 
at Crotona Field in the Bronx. From August 29 to Sep¬ 
tember 5, there will be five productions of a different 
pageant — historical, symbolical, and recreative — one in 
each of the five boroughs. Beginning August 31, there will 
be six open air productions of grand opera, three in one 
of the principal parks of Manhattan Borough and three in 
one of the principal parks of Bronx Borough. Other events 
of a similar nature will be held under the auspices of the 
Local Festivals Committee. 


Music Festivals 

(Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Director of City Concerts of 
Board of Education, Chairman.) 

From September 14 to September 28, there will be a 
series of fourteen music festivals in different auditoriums of 
the colleges and high schools of the city, including the 
Great Hall of the College of the City of New York and 
the Municipal Theatre in the Washington Irving High 
School. These festivals will be participated in by orchestral 
and vocal musicians of the highest order. 


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Commerc’ial Exhibits 

(Edward P. V. Ritter, President of Merchants and 
Manufacturers Exchange, Chairman.) 

From September 5 to September 26, there will be a series 
of commercial exhibits at the Grand Central Palace, show¬ 
ing the growth of the different industries of the United 
States from their beginning up to the present time. This 
exposition will contain many interesting features. One of 
the plans includes representations of Old New York and 
the development of its principal business houses. 

Street Parades 

(Gen. George R. Dyer, Commanding First Brigade, N. G. 
N. Y., Chairman.) 

Between September 15 and October 12, it is proposed to 
hold a series qf street parades in the five boroughs which 
shall illustrate in pageant form the industrial and com¬ 
mercial progress of the city, State and Nation. Unlike the 
Hudson Fulton Celebration parades, which were largely 
symbolical and which carefully excluded anything of a 
commercial nature, these parades will aim to be mainly of 
a practical character, illustrating the products of the soil, 
the factory, and business generally. In addition to these, 
it is hoped that a military and naval parade may also be 
had. 

Athletics 

(James E. Sullivan, President Amateur Athletic Union 
of U. S., Chairman.) 

Monday, October 12 (Columbus Day) will be devoted to 
Athletic exercises at various centers in the city. These 
events, common abroad, have proved of great popular in¬ 
terest in connection with recent public celebrations in this 
country and, like the Focal Festivals, reach all classes of 
people. 

Educational Institutions 

(Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Chancellor of New York 
University, Chairman.) 

In the high schools, academies and colleges of the State, 
there will be essay competitions and lectures on the com¬ 
mercial history of the city, State and country. 


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251 


M use inn Exhibits 

(Dr. George Frederick Kunz, President of the N. Y. 
Academy of Sciences, Chairman.) 

Arrangements are in progress for a series of appropriate 
special exhibitions in the great art, scientific and historical 
museums, notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 
American Museum of Natural History, the New York 
Zoological Park, the New York Botanical Garden, the New 
York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences, etc. Similar exhibitions were leading fea¬ 
tures of the Hudson Fulton Celebration. 


M emo rials 

(Dr. Franklin W. Hooper,* Director of Brooklyn Insti¬ 
tute of Arts and Sciences, Chairman.) 

As its chief contribution in the way of a permanent 
memorial the Commission has decided to cooperate with 
the National Watergate Association in the erection of a 
Watergate on the Hudson river water-front in honor of 
Robert Fulton and other pioneers of commerce. The Com¬ 
mission will contribute to the preparation of new designs 
and models embodying a commercial museum, assembly 
hall, and other ideas suggested by this Commission. 


Historical Meetings 

(Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, ex-president N. Y. His¬ 
torical Society, Chairman.) 

Various historical meetings will be held at convenient 
times, either directly by the Tercentenary Commission or 
by historical societies in cooperation with the Commission. 
The dedication of the Merchants'’ Coffee House tablet, corner 
of Wall and Water streets, by the Lower Wall Street Busi¬ 
ness Men’s Association, on May 23, was one such. The 
dedication of an ancient cannon in Battery Park by the 
City History Club will be another. And others are under 
consideration. 

Panama Canal 

(Hon. Theodore P. Shonts, ex-Chairman Isthmian 
Canal Commission, Chairman) 

The practical opening of the Panama Canal this year and 
the important relation to that event to the commerce of the 


* Died August 1, 1914. 



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country in general, and of New York in particular, have led 
to the planning of an interesting exhibit of large models 
of the Canal, to be held in some suitable place in the city. 


Peace Centennial 

(Hon. William B. Howland, Chairman International 
Peace Committee, Chairman.) 

The coincidence of the English-speaking Peace Centen¬ 
nial with the Commercial Tricentennial will receive suitable 
recognition in a form yet to be determined. 

Naval Events 

(Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Commissioner of Docks, Chair¬ 
man.) 

Owing to uncertainty concerning the movements of the 
United States Navy, the program of Naval Events has not 
been matured; but plans are being considered for a suitable 
display of our merchant marine and, if possible, of the 
Navy, on the Hudson river and in the harbor in October. 


Illuminations 

(Hon. William Berri, proprietor of Brooklyn Standard 
Union, Chairman.) 

During the culminating events of the Celebration, there 
will be public illuminations. 


Vice-Chairman of Memorials Committee 

The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Hooper, Chairman 
of the Memorials Committee, who was absent on account 
of illness, requesting “ that Mr. E. Hagaman Hall, Secre¬ 
tary of the Commission, may be appointed as Vice Chairman 
of the Committee on Memorials of the Commission, to serve 
in the absence of the Chairman.” The Secretary added 
that while on account of his great respect for Dr. Hooper 
he would do anything he possibly could at his request, yet 
it was physically impossible to take upon himself any 
further work. 

It was voted that Dr. Hooper be authorized to designate 
the Vice Chairman of his Committee. 


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253 


Athletic Exercises October 12 

At the request of Mr. James E. Sullivan, Chairman of 
the Committee on Athletics, October 12 (Columbus Day) 
was approved as the date for the athletic events. 

Official Badge 

At the request of Mr. Henry Russell Drowne, Chairman 
of the Committee on Medal and Badge, it was voted that 
the price of the Official Badge in silver be fixed at $3 and 
in bronze at $2. (For description of the Official Badge 
see page 239.) 

Brooklyn Historical Pageant 

The Secretary, referring to the matter under this head on 
page 216, laid before the Board the application of the 
Brooklyn Historical Pageant for an appropriation of $10,- 
000 from this Commission. The President of the Board of 
Managers of the Brooklyn Pageant is Mr. Eugene W. 
Harter of No. 121 Marlborough Road, Flatbush, and the 
Secretary, Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison, of No 60 Amers- 
l'ort Place, Brooklyn. The author of the Book of the 
Pageant is Mr. Martin H. Weyrauch, care of the Brooklyn 
Daily Eagle, who has contributed his book without expense. 
The proposition is for a pageant to be held in Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn, on October 15, 16, 17 and 18, illustrating 
the history of Brooklyn. It is stated that there will be 
3,000 participants and 50,000 witnesses of the performances. 
It is estimated that the production will cost $30,000 less 
$10,000 received from the sale of seats, or $20,000. The 
pageant managers request this Commission to contribute 
$10,000. 

The Secretary said that the request and estimate had been 
presented in writing and reinforced by a recent personal 
call from Mr. Weyrauch before mentioned, and Dr. Ellis 
P. Oberholtzer of Philadelphia, a manager of pageants. 

After comments by Judge Parker, Mr. Bridgman, Mr. 
Lee and Mr E. P. V. Ritter, it was voted that while this 
Commission entertained a very cordial feeling toward the 
projected pageant and wished it all success, the Commission 


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was unable, owing to its limited resources and its legal 
requirements, to accede to the request for a contribution. 

Illuminated Street Signs 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee and the Commercial Exhibits Committee, re¬ 
ported on several subjects. He urged the necessity of 
publicity in order to acquaint the people with the celebra¬ 
tion. In this connection he recommended the display of 
illuminated street signs announcing the celebration. This 
was referred to the Committee on Publicity and Illumina¬ 
tions, to report through the Chairman of the former. 


Honorary Presidents 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter recommended that Governor Glynn 
and Mayor Mitchel be elected Honorary Presidents of the 
Commission. 

Judge Parker so moved, and they were unanimously 
elected. 

Panama Canal Exhibit 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter said that he had been in communica¬ 
tion with Mr. W. Leon Pepperman, the assistant of Mr. 
Shonts, Chairman of the Panama Canal Committee, in re¬ 
gard to securing the exhibition of the Panama Canal models 
referred to on pages 143 and 240 of the Minutes. 

Mr. Ritter was requested to get further information on 
the subject. 

Automobile Parade 

Mr. A. H. Stoddard, Director of Commercial Exhibits 
and Pageantry, was asked to report on the progress made in 
organizing the proposed automobile parade. He said that 
there had been about 1500 entries. The matter was being 
handled by Mr. S. A. Miles, General Manager of the 
National Association of Automobile Manufacturers. It 
would be no expense to the Commission. It was proposed 
to hold the parade on the evening of September 26, starting 
in the Bronx, continuing through Manhattan, and ending 
in Brooklyn Borough. 


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255 


It was voted that Messrs. Fleck, Norman and Lee be 
appointed a committee to report further to the Trustees on 
the subject of the automobile parade. 

Commercial Parade 

Mr. Stoddard reported that there had been 35 entries of 
floats for the street parade illustrating commercial and 
industrial progress. The floats were being built at Fort 
George by the Tide Water Standard Company. The floats 
were being built at the expense of the exhibitors and without 
liability to this Commission. The designs would be referred 
to the Committee on Decoration and Design for approval. 

Upon motion of Judge Parker, it was voted that a com¬ 
mittee be appointed to report further upon the subject of 
the commercial pageant, and the Vice President presiding 
appointed as such committee Messrs. Ames, Lamb and 
Muschenheim. 

Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter submitted a form of contract to be 
used by exhibitors desiring to engage floor space in the 
Grand Central Palace from this Commission for their ex¬ 
hibits. He also submitted a form of option by which the 
Commission could secure floor space to be sold to such 
exhibitors. 

Referred to the Committee on Contracts. 

Mr. Stoddard, in response to inquiries by the Vice Presi¬ 
dent presiding, stated that no contracts for exhibition space 
had actually been signed as yet. 

Upon motion of Mr. Ames, it was voted that a com¬ 
mittee be appointed to report further on the subject of 
commercial exhibits, and the Vice President presiding ap¬ 
pointed as such committee Messrs. MacKinnon, Stitt and 
Norman. 

Law and Legislation Committee 

Judge Parker, Chairman of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, asked Mr. Stoddard about the claim presented 
by Mr. Charles W. Sinnott, in behalf of certain clients, re¬ 
ferred on pages 234 and 241 of the Minutes. Mr. Stoddard 


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replied to the general effect that the claimants had no valid 
claim against the Commission. 

Judge Parker said that the Committee would give the 
matter its careful consideration. 

Official Program and Souvenir 

The Vice President presiding laid before the Trustees 
“ dummies ” of an Official Program and Official Souvenir 
being prepared by the Wynkoop Hallenbeck-Crawford Co. 
and inquired whether they had been duly authorized. 

The Secretary referred to the proposal of this company 
reported on page 191 of the minutes but said it had been 
laid on the table. 

Mr. Stoddard said that he had not given the company 
any authority as Official Printers. He assumed personal 
responsibility for certain printing bills amounting to about 
$625. 

It was voted that the matter of the Official Program and 
Official Souvenir be referred to the Publicity Committee 
with power. 

Books about Old New York 

The Vice President presiding laid before the Trustees a 
copy of an elaborate and expensive book, illustrating Old 
New York, a limited edition of which had been published 
by Mr. Henry C. Brown, of No. 15 East 40th street; also 
a “ dummy ” of a miniature book on the same subject pro¬ 
jected by Mr. Brown, to contain 160 illustrations and ten 
thousand words of text, to retail at 25 cents a copy. 

Referred to the Publicity Committee. 


Raising of Subscriptions 

There was an informal discussion of methods of raising 
funds by subscription and certain measures were informally 
agreed upon. During the consideration of the subject, 
Mr. Herman Ridder recommended the solicitation of sub¬ 
scriptions by letter, as during the Hudson-Fulton and other 
recent celebrations. 


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257 


Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee, said that such a course would be agreeable to 
him, and he moved that Mr. Fritz Guertler, who had super¬ 
intended such work for former public committees, be en¬ 
gaged at a salary of $30 a week, for this purpose, to work 
under the direction of the Ways and Means and Finance 
Committees with the cooperation of the Secretary, and to 
perform such other work as might be required of him at 
headquarters. Carried. 

On motion of Mr. Herman Ridder, it was voted that not 
to exceed $1000 be apportioned to the Ways and Means and 
Finance Committees, in addition to the amounts heretofore 
apportioned, for the necessary expenses of sending out the 
letters soliciting subscriptions, including Mr. Guertler’s 
salary, printing, postage, addressing, etc. 

The following estimate of expense of the Finance Com¬ 
mittee and Ways and Means Committee was approved, sub¬ 
ject to the approval of the Committee on Estimates. 


Miss Amy Brody, stenographer, 4 weeks at $15. $60 00 

Tribune Association, rent of room 717 and fur¬ 
niture 1 month from July 27. 30 00 

Underwood Typwriter Co., rent of machine 1 

month. 3 5° 

Postage. 10 00 


$103 50 


The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 











































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Trustees’ Meeting 

August 5, 1914 

The twenty-second meeting of the Trustees of the New 
\ ork Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of the Hon. Herman Ridder at No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday, August 5, 1914. 


Roll-Call 

Present: First Presiding Vice-President Alton B. 

Parker, Second Presiding Vice-President George F. Kunz, 
Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. August Belmont (by Mr. 
Frank Bristow), Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. 
Bridgman, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Hon. Robert L. Harrison, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. Mac¬ 
Kinnon, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, and Mr. 
Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

At Judge Parker’s request Dr. Kunz presided. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Mr. Robert 
Grier Cooke, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Hon. Robert W. 
de Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. 
Eben E. Olcott, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Col. Henry W. 
Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman and 
Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were excused.* 

*Among the Trustees abroad are Gen. Howard Carroll, Dr. John 
H. Finley, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. 
Theodore P. Shonts, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, Mr. James Speyer, Mr. 
Robert W. Boissevain, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Hans Lager- 
lof, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mr. Arthur Williams. 



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Death. of Dr. Franklin W. Hooper 

The Vice-President presiding requested the Trustees to 
stand while he announced the painful news of the death 
of Dr. Franklin W. Flooper which occurred at Walpole, 
N. H., on the preceding Saturday, August i. 

Dr. Hooper was one of the Incorporators of the Com¬ 
mission and had been a member of the Board of Trustees 
from the beginning. At the last meeting of the Board 
which he attended on July 8, he was requested to preside 
and discharged the duties of acting President with his 
usual vigor. He was Chairman of the Committee on 
Memorials, and at the meeting on July 8 he made a re¬ 
markable address in behalf of the proposed memorial 
Watergate, which gave evidence of his strong intellectual¬ 
ity and his high patriotism. It was not only in relation 
to this Commission, however, that he was respected by 
his colleagues. His contributions to science, particularly in 
the fields of geology and biology, his activities in the trustee¬ 
ship of many educational institutions, and particularly his 
wonderful work in the development of the Brooklyn In¬ 
stitute of Arts and Sciences, not only won for himself 
an enviable reputation as a scientist, teacher and achiever 
of great works, but also reflected high credit upon the 
country to whose people he devoted himself with so much 
self-sacrifice. He was born in Walpole, N. H., February 
ii, 1851, and had been a High School Principal and 
College Professor in several leading institutions of learn¬ 
ing, and he had many educational and civic connections 
afifecting the public welfare. 

It was voted that Dr. Kunz be requested to express to 
Mrs. Hooper the Commission’s sense of its own and the 
public’s loss, and to assure her of their deep sympathy for 
her in hers. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of May 6, May 27, June 24, July 1 and 
July 8, which had been printed and sent to all the members 


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of the Commission but which had not been read in meeting 
were approved, and the minutes of July 29 were read 
and approved. 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
Mr. J. J. Baird, accountant, presented the following report: 


New York, Aug. 4, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen.— On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on August 3, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


To July 
28, 1914 

State appropriation, on account. 

Subscriptions, direct... $1,800 oo 

Subscriptions, ways and means committee.. . 3,840 00 

Subscriptions for medals. 441 10 


July 28 

to Aug. 3 Total 

$10,000 00 $10,000 00 

. 1,800 00 

225 00 4,065 00 

. 441 10 


$6,081 10 $10,225 00 


$16,306 10 


Estimates 

approved 

$5,000 00 


500 00 
493 50 


7,495 00 
640 00 


5,000 00 


4,000 00 
5,000 00 


Appro¬ 

priations 

$5,000 00 
5,000 00 
500 00 
10,000 00 
5,000 00 
500 00 

1.500 00 

x,000 00 
10,000 00 
15,000 00 
1,441 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 
x,ooo 00 
1,000 00 

2.500 00 
5,000 00 
5,000 00 

7.500 00 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Classification 

Headquarters. $1,835 48 

Athletics. 

Auditing._.. .. 

Commercial exhibits . . . 1,225 75 

Educational institutions. 

Flag and poster. 

Finance and ways and 

means... 22 96 

Historical meetings. 77 25 

Illuminations. 

Local festivals. 

Medal and badge. 526 25 

Memorials... .. 

Museum exhibits. 8 50 


Music festivals. 

Naval events. 

Panama canal. 

Peace centennial. 

Publicity. 

Street parades. 

Secretary’s salary. : . 

Director of commercial 

exhibits. 1,250 00 


$1,835 48 


1,225 75 


22 96 
77 25 


526 25 
8 50 


1,250 00 


$96,941 00 


Total 


$4,946 19 . $ 4,946 19 


Total receipts 


16,306 10 


Balance in bank August 3, 1914 


$11,359 9 i 


Of this balance there is reserved for Finance and Ways 
& Means Committee $609.75. 
















































































































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LIABILITIES UNPAID 


Finance and Ways & Means: 

Marshall B. Van Cott, salary, July 28... $75 00 

Marshall B. Van Cott, salary, August 5.. 75 00 

Tribune Association, rent, August. 30 00 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rent. 3 50 

Miss Brodv, stenographer, August 1. 15 o° 

-•' $198 50 

Medals & Badges: 

Tiffany & Co., medals and cases. 4°d 5o 

Headquarters: 

Secretary’s expenses . $U§ 95 

N. Y. Telephone Co., July. 14 65 

Tribune Association, rent, August. 30 00 

Sundries . 25 00 

-- 248 60 

Secretary: Salary December 1, 1913? to July 31, 1914. • 4-000 00 

Director of Commercial Exhibits: Salary February 1, 

1914, to July 31, 1914. 3-750 00 


$8,603 60 

Finance and Ways & Means Committee for expenses 
collecting subscriptions . 609 75 


$ 9,213 35 


Respectfully submitted, 

J. J. Baird, Accountant. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Classification: 

Ways & Means Tribune Association, rent room 717... $30 00 

do Marshall B. Van Cott, salary. 75 00 

do Amy Brody, stenographer . 15 00 

do Underwood Typewriter Co., rental.... 3 50 

do Wells, Menge & Swain, services. 20 00 

do Wells, Menge & Swain, services. 45 00 

do Alexander, Boughton & Cockle, services 60 00 

Headquarters New York Telephone Co., telephone.... 14 65 

do Tribune Association, rent room 809, Aug. 30 00 

do E. H. Hall, disbursements to Aug. 1.... 178 95 

Secretary, E. H. Hall, salary Dec. 1 to July 31. 4.000 00 

Director of Commercial Exhibits, A. H. Stoddard, 

salary, April 1 to July 31. 2,500 00 


$6,972 10 



























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263 


Approval of Two Auditors Sufficient 

It was voted that in the absence from town of any 
member of the Auditing Committee, the approval of a 
voucher by two of the three members would be sufficient. 


Postponement of Celebration Proposed 

Notice had been given by letter to the Trustees that 
in view of the outbreak of a general European war since 
the last meeting of the Board, the postponement of the 
Celebration had been suggested and that the question would 
come up for consideration at this meeting.* 

Mr. Herman Ridder, speaking with much feeling, urged 
postponement. He said that in the presence of the greatest 
war the world had ever known, there was nothing else to 
do but to put off the celebration. He therefore moved 
that the celebration be postponed. 

Judge Parker seconded Mr. Ridder's motion. He did 
not see how we could celebrate under the circumstances. 
He favored postponement but not abandonment. 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter asked about the liabilities of 
the Commission in case of postponement. He said we had 
collected several thousand dollars by subscription and had 
secured a State appropriation for a celebration to be held 
in 1914 and ought to carry out these expectations. He did 
not favor any hilarity in the celebration, but he thought 
it would be a mistake to postpone or abandon it. He 
hoped the war situation might not be as bad as was feared. 

Dr. Stitt approved of the main idea of the postponement 
but pleaded for the carrying out of the celebrations planned 
for the school children by the Local Festivals Committee. 
The arrangements had been made, the children were work¬ 
ing on their costumes, and the festivals were planned to 
begin within a week. He thought these local festivals might 
be made splendid object lessons of American patriotism to 
the children of all nationalities. 

* Col. Sackett, Hon. Thomas W. Churchill, Commodore Dalzell 
and Mr. Olcott, in sending their regrets, expressed themselves in 
favor of postponement. 



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Mr. Lee, Chairman of the Local Festivals Committee, 
seconded Dr. Stitt’s plea. The children were already mak¬ 
ing their costumes and it would be a hardship to stop 
them. He would abandon the celebration if it were a 
war celebration; but it was a celebration of peace and 
education, and would include nothing to stir up race an¬ 
tagonisms. He would abandon the military and naval 
features but urged the continuance of the children’s affairs 
thus far arranged. 

Prof. Fleck urged the same in regard to the music 
festivals. He said no contracts had been signed but verbal 
agreements had been made with the artists. 

Mr. Harrison heartily seconded Mr. Herman Ridder. 
The people were too sad to have any celebration. He 
referred to the situation in the financial and business world 
as not propitious for a commemoration such as was planned. 
He would postpone the celebration and suspend the sittings 
of the Board of Trustees. 

Mr. Kolff, who said he was immediately under the shadow 
of the clouds hovering over Europe, said that while the 
great war was between other nations, yet we were a part 
of the world, and he hoped the celebration would be 
postponed. 

Mr. MacKinnon did not favor abandonment but he earn¬ 
estly advocated postponement. He thought many com¬ 
mercial houses would prefer deferring the celebration. He 
referred to the effect of the war on depositors in savings 
banks, and to other features of the present situation, and 
believed postponment was the best course. 

Mr. Lamb thought it would be unfortunate if this Com¬ 
mission should give an example of stopping. If every board 
of directors took such a course it would promote general 
paralysis of business. He believed every group of the 
community should take the position of keeping on and 
doing business. 

Mr. Bogert thought that the subject should be referred to 
the Ways and Means Committee and that when the Board 
adjourned it should be subject to the call of the Chair. 


August 5, 1914 265 


Mr. Lamb moved as a substitute for the original motion 
that a special committee be appointed to see if a modified 
plan of celebration could not be carried out which would 
comply with the charter requirement of the. Commission 
and be in accord with public sentiment. 

Dr. Stitt and Mr. Lee joined in a motion, as an amend¬ 
ment, that the three local events planned by the Local 
Festivals Committee to be held in Curtis Athletic Field, 
Crotona Field and Brooklyn Athletic Field; also the five 
children’s pageants planned to be held in the five boroughs 
be proceeded with. 

Mr. Lee said that the foregoing motion did not include 
the proposed open air opera and that the expense would 
not exceed $9,000. 

A rising vote was called for and the motion of Messrs. 
Stitt and Lee was adopted, 8 to 6. 

Mr. Lamb then renewed his original motion for a special 
committee to consider the subject and report to the next 
meeting and it was adopted. 

The Vice-President presiding appointed as such Com¬ 
mittee : 


Dr. George F. Kunz, chairman, 
ex-officio 

Mr. Louis A. Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
Hon. William Berri 
Mr. Henry L. Bogert 
Dr. Elmer E. Brown 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Com. Fred B. Dalzell 
Mr. Henry R. Drowne 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
Hon. Robert L. Harrison 
Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman 


Hon. William B. Howland 
Mr. Charles R. Lamb 
Mr. William J. Lee 
Mr. A. E. MacKinnon 
Mr. Eben E. Olcott 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Hon. Theodore P. Shouts 
Mr. James E. Sullivan 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
Mr. Arthur Williams 


Director of Commercial ExMbits and Pageantry 

To make clear the intent of a resolution adopted at the 
meeting of the Trustees on July 22, 1914, it was voted that 
the Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry be 
placed under the direction of the Committee on Commercial 
Exhibits. 


266 


Minutes of Trustees 


Discontinuance of Salaries 

Hon. Herman Ridder moved that the salaries of all em¬ 
ployes of the Commission, excepting those of the Secretary 
and necessary assistants, and also those employed by the 
Local Festivals Committee for the purposes of carrying 
out the events just approved, be discontinued at once, this 
action to include the termination of the contract with 
Mr. A. H. Stoddard as Director of Commercial Exhibits 
and Pageantry. Carried. 


Law and Legislation Committee 

Judge Parker, Chairman of the Law and Legislation 
Committee, referring to the alleged claim of certain clients 
of Mr. Charles W. Sinnott (see pages 234, 241, 255) said 
that the Committee had carefully examined into the matter 
and he had prepared a report, the conclusion of which was 
that the Commission was under no liability for the alleged 
claim. 

Panama Canal Exhibit 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter reported that pursuant to the resolu¬ 
tion of the Trustees (page 254) he had conferred with 
Mr. Pepperman in regard to the proposed exhibition of 
Panama Canal models and that the exhibition of the models 
referred to by Mr. Ritter at a former meeting would be 
agreeable to Mr. Shonts. 

Ways and Means Committee 

A question as to the conditions, if any, attaching to 
subscriptions of the Gorham Co., and Steinway & Sons 
was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. 

Gov. Glynn Accepts Honorary Presidency 

The Secretary referring to the action of the Trustees in 
electing Gov. Glynn Honorary President of the Commis¬ 
sion (page 254) laid before the Board the following letter: 


267 


August 5, 1914 

State of New York 
Executive Chamber 
Albany. 

August 3rd, 1914. 

Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

154 Nassau Street, 

New York City. 

My Dear Sir .— I am directed by the Governor to 
acknowledge receipt of your courteous letter of the 31st 
ultimo, informing him of his election as an Honorary 
President of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission. 

The Governor desires to accept the same and to assure 
you of his great appreciation of your courtesy to him. 

Very sincerely yours, 

Frank A. Tierney, 
Secretary to the Governor. 


Resignation of Mr. Boissevain 

The resignation of Mr. Robert V/. Boissevain from the 
Commission on account of permanent removal to Holland 
was accepted with regret. 


Committees Discharged 

It was voted that, in view of the necessarily modified 
plans of the Commission, the Northern New York Com¬ 
mittee, Southern New York Committee, Upper Hudson 
Committee, Lower Hudson Committee, Erie Canal Com¬ 
mittee and Pan-American Congress Committee be dis¬ 
charged with the thanks of the Trustees. 

Medal for Sofia Chamber of Commerce 

Mr. Bridgman, having offered to bear the expense of 
presenting an Official Medal to the Sofia Chamber of 
Commerce, was authorized to do so in the name of the 
Commission. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward PIagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 




















































































































































































































269 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

August 12, 1914 

The twenty-third meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday, August 12, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll Call 

Present: Dr. George F. Kunz, Vice-President, presiding; 
Mr. William J. Amend, Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Hon. R. 
Ross Appleton (by Mr. Marshall B. Van Cott), Mr. Her¬ 
bert L. Bridgman, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Robert Grier 
Cooke, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. William 
J. Lee, Mr. A. E. Mac Kinnon, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. 
Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, and Mr. Arthur 
Williams (by Mr. A. E. Norman). 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Commodore Fred B. Dal- 
zell, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, Hon. 
Robert L. Harrison, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mr. 
Jacob H. Schiff, and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of August 5, 1914, were 
read and approved. 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
Mr. J. J. Baird, accountant, presented the following report: 


270 


Minutes of Trustees 


New York, August 12, 1914. 


To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen. — On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on August 11, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 

To Aug. 3, Aug 3, to 
1914 Aug. 11 

State appropriation, on account. $10,000 00 . 

Subscriptions, direct._. 1,800 00 . 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means Committee.... 4,065 00 $150 00 
Subscriptions for medals. 441 10 27 co 


Total 

$10,000 00 
1,800 00 
4,215 00 
468 10 


$16,306 10 $177 00 $16,483 10 


Estimates Appropria- 
approved lions 


$5,000 00 $5,000 

. 5,000 

. 500 

. 10,000 

. 5,000 

500 00 500 

493 50 1,500 

. 1,000 

. 10,000 

7,495 00 15,000 

640 00 1,000 

___ 468 

. 5,000 

. 5,000 

5,000 00 5,000 

. 5,00c 

. 1,000 

. 1,000 

. 2,500 

. 5,000 

4,500 00 5,000 

5,625 00 7,Soo 


$96,968 


DISBURSEMENTS 

Classification 


Headquarters. 

Athletics . 

$1,835 48 

$208 95 

$2,044 43 

Auditing... 

Commercial exhibits. 

1,225 75 


1,225 75 

Educational institutions. . . . 


Flag and poster. 




Finance and Ways and 

Means. 

Historical meetings. 

22 96 
77 25 

290 00 

312 96 
77 25 

Illuminations. 


Local festivals. . 

Medal and badge. 

526 25 


526 25 
406 50 

Medals and cases purchased. 
Memorials. 

406 50 

Museum exhibits. 

8 50 


8 50 


Music festivals 
Naval events. . 
Panama Canal. 


Peace centennial. 

Publicity. 

Street parades. 

Secretary’s salary. 4,000 00 4,000 00 

Director of commercial ex¬ 
hibits, salary. 1,250 00 3,750 00 5,000 00 


$4,946 19 $8,655 45 $13,601 64 
Excess of receipts over disbursements. $2,881 46 


In bank, $2,831.46; on hand, $50.00. 


LIABILITIES UNPAID 

Finance and Ways and Means; 

Tribune Association, rent, August. $30 00 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rent. 3 50 

Marshall B. Van Cott, salary, August 12. 75 00 

Miss Brody, stenographer, salary, August 8. 15 00 

A. K. Alexander, H. L. Boughton and J. L. Cockle, ex¬ 
penses collecting subscriptions. 25 00 

Fritz Guertler, salary, two weeks, August 12. 60 00 

Fritz Guertler, car fares. 1 00 


Local Festivals; 

William J. Lee, expenses, salaries, etc. $211 20 

William J.-Lee, taxicab hire. 15 00 

William F. Hamilton, first instalment under contract for 

production of pageants. 500 00 


726 20 





















































































































August 12, 1914 


271 


Headquarters; 


New York Telephone Co., July. $14 65 

Accountant’s services. 270 00 

Sundries. .... 50 00 

... - $334 65 

Director of Commercial Exhibits; Salary, August. 625 00 

Secretary; Salary, August. 500 00 


$2,395 35 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


Received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Classification: 

Ways and Means, Marshall B. Van Cott, salary, August 12. $75 00 

Amy Brody, stenographer, salary, August 8. 15 00 

A. K. Alexander, H. L. Boughton and J. L. Cockle, 

services. 25 00 

Fritz Guertler, two weeks’ services, August 12. 60 00 

Fritz Guertler, car fares. 1 00 

Local Festivals, William J. Lee, salaries, postage, etc. 211 20 

William J. Lee, taxicab hire. 15 00 

William F. Hamilton, first instalment under contract for pro¬ 
duction of pageants. 500 00 


$Q02 20 


Mayor Mitchel Accepts Honorary Presidency 

Referring to the action of the Trustees (page 254) in 
electing Governor Glynn and Mayor Mitchel Honorary 
Presidents of the Commission, and Governor Glynn’s 
acceptance (page 266), the Secretary laid before the Board 
the following letter: 

City of New York 
Office of the Mayor. 

August 10, 1914. 

Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York City. 

Dear Dr. Hall.— The Mayor asks me to thank you for 
your letter of July 31st, and to say that he is glad to 
accept your invitation to become one of the Honorary 
Presidents of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission. 

Very truly yours, 

Theodore Rousseau, 

Secretary. 






















272 


Minutes of Trustees 


Appointments by tbe Mayor 

Referring to the nominations made to His Honor the 
Mayor of New York at the meeting of May 27 (page 201) 
and at the meeting of July 15 (page 233) the Secretary 
laid before the Board the following letter:* 

City of New York 
Office of the Mayor. 

August 10, 1914. 

Dr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Tribune Building, New York City. 

Dear Dr. Hall.— The Mayor asks me to say that he is 
pleased to appoint to the New York Commercial Tercenten¬ 
ary Commission the gentlemen mentioned in your letters of 
June 4th and July 21st. 

Very truly yours, 

Theodore Rousseau, 

Secretary. 

Claims of Messrs. Whitney and Roberts 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter from Mr. 
Maxwell TI. Elliott, Counsellor-at-law, at No. 277 Broad¬ 
way, dated August 11, 1914, presenting in behalf of Mr. 
Girard N. Whitney, a claim against the Commission for 
money said to have been advanced to Mr. A. H. Stoddard 
and for salary alleged to be due as assistant to Mr. Stod¬ 
dard; also in behalf of Mr. Nelson Roberts for salary 
alleged to be due to him in the same capacity. 

Referred to the Committee on Law and Legislation. 


Postponement of Parts of the Celebration 

The Secretary read the minutes of the special committee 
appointed at the last meeting (page 265) to consider the 
question of modifying the plans of the Commission in 
view of the European War. The Committee recommended 
the postponement of various features of the celebration 
except certain local festivals for the children, the com¬ 
mercial exhibits and parade, and the necessary accessories 
such as illuminations, etc. 

* Mr. Charles Steinway declined his appointment on account of 
absence from town. 



August 12, 1914 


273 


Mr. E. P. V. Ritter moved the adoption of the following 
preamble and resolution: 

Whereas, The New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission views with the deepest sorrow the unhappy 
conflict between European nations with all of which the 
American people entertain friendly relations, and feels that 
a proper respect for the human sympathies which are stirred 
by their misfortunes dictates that it should refrain at the 
present time, so far as possible, from carrying out those 
public manifestations of rejoicing which it had planned to 
celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the beginning 
of the chartered commerce of New York; therefore be it 

Resolved, That until the further order of the Board of 
Trustees, all of the Commission’s proposed forms of cel¬ 
ebration be postponed, except the eight children’s gatherings 
under the direction of the Local Festivals Committee 
especially authorized by resolution of August 5, and the com¬ 
mercial exhibits, commercial parade, illuminations and neces¬ 
sary accessories, for which foregoing features the material 
preparations are so far advanced that they cannot be post¬ 
poned without undue hardship to the expecting participants. 

Mr. Ritter reported, as bearing on the foregoing resolu¬ 
tion, that he had conferred with Messrs. Napier and Steven¬ 
son of the Tidewater Standard Co. and had been given 
information which indicated that the company had incurred 
expenses amounting to about $30,000 in preparing for 
the participation of various business concerns in the com¬ 
mercial parade and commercial exhibits. These expenses 
were not a liability of the Commission, but had been in¬ 
curred in behalf of prospective participants in the faith 
that the celebration would be held. 

Mr. Mac Kinnon reported that as yet no contracts for 
commercial exhibits had been signed. 

There was a general discussion of these and other feat¬ 
ures of the Commission’s plans. The consensus of the 
Trustees was that everything that could be postponed with¬ 
out working hardship to those whose material preparations 
were far advanced should be deferred to a more favorable 
time. 

The preamble and resolution were unanimously adopted. 


274 


Minutes of Trustees 


Committee on Commercial Parade 

It was voted that the Vice-President presiding appoint a 
special Committee on Commercial Parade, and he appointed 
Messrs. Ames, Bridgman, Cooke, Kolff, Lamb, Lee and 
Norman. 

Indian Industrial Exhibit 

The courtesy of the floor was extended to Dr. Joseph 
K. Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker expeditions 
among the Indians, who explained the details of the pro¬ 
posed exhibition of Indian industries and customs (page 
234) in conjunction with the commercial exhibits. 

In the comments following Dr. Dixon’s statement the 
Vice-President presiding made it clear that the Indian 
exhibit was not to involve the Commission in any expense. 

On motion of Mr. Mac Kinnon, the Committee on Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits was requested to appoint a sub-committee 
on this particular exhibit. 

Relinquishment of Secretary’s Salary 

The Secretary, referring to the action of the Trustees 
in stopping all salaries but his (page 266) and the further 
action at this meeting in postponing part of the Celebration, 
offered to relinquish his salary from August 1, 1914. 

It was voted that the Secretary’s offer be accepted pro¬ 
visionally. 

Official Program and Souvenir 

Mr. Mac Kinnon, in behalf of the committee appointed 
to inquire into the preparations being made by the Wyn- 
koop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Co. to publish an alleged 
“official program” and “official souvenir”, (page 256), 
reported that the printing company had agreed to with¬ 
draw its claim for printing and to issue the books, if later 
deemed advisable, without the term “ official printers ” or 
in any official way connecting such books with the Com¬ 


mission. 


August 12, 1914 


275 


Official Poster 

Mr. Ames inquired whether the Flag and Poster Com¬ 
mittee should proceed to secure a design for the poster in 
accordance with the action of the Trustees on July 22 
(page 239). 

It was the consensus of the Trustees that the poster design 
was a necessary accessory within the meaning of the resolu¬ 
tion just adopted (page 273). 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary 


1 


276 


Minutes of Trustees 


OFFICERS 


(Revised to August 14, 1914) 

Honorary Presidents 

His Excellency the Governor of New York State, 

Martin H. Glynn. 

His Honor the Mayor of New York City, 

John Purroy Mitchel. 

President 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row, New York. 


Vice-Presidents 

ist Presiding, Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

2d Presiding, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 


Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 


Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
Arthur Williams 
William Ziegler, Jr. 

(One vacancy) 

Treasurer 


Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 


Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York. 



August 12, 1914 


277 


Chairmen of Standing Committees 


Athletics . 

Auditing . 

Commercial Exhibits • • . 

Commercial Parade . 

Contracts .. 

Design and Decoration .. . 
Educational Institutions 

Executive . 

Finance . 

Flag and Poster. 

Historical Meetings .... 

Illuminations . 

Law and Legislation 

Local Festivals. 

Medal and Badge. 

Memorials . 

Museum Exhibits . 

Music Festivals . 

Naval Events . 

Netherlands . 

Nominations . 

Panama Canal . 

Peace Centennial . 

Plan and Scope. 

Reception . 

Religious Meetings . 

Reviewing Stand. 

Street Parades . 


James E. Sullivan 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Edward P. V. Ritter 

Louis Annin Ames 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Charles R. Lamb 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Hon. Herman Ridder 

Hon. R. Ross Appleton 

Louis Annin Ames 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Hon. William Berri 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

William J. Lee 

Henry Russell Drowne 

Vacant 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Hon. R. A. C. Smith 

Com. F. B. Dalzell, Vice-Chn. 

Henry L. Bogert 

Vacant 

Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. William B. Howland 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Vacant 

Gen. George R. Dyer 






























278 


Minutes of Trustees 


COMMISSION 

Members by Appointment 


(Revised to August 14, 1914. 

Hon. Robert Adamson 

John Adikes 

Lieut C. J. Ahern 

Newton D. Ailing 

William J. Amend 

Louis Annin Ames 

Hon. K. Rossm Appleton 

John D. Archbold 

John Aspegren 

Vincent As tor 

Robert C. Auld 

Charles J. Austin 

Aaron J. Bach 

Henry Bacon 

Bernard M. Baruch 

A. G. Batchelder 

Edward P. Bates 

Joseph F. Becker 

Charles Beckman 

August Belmont 

Marcus Benjamin Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Tunis G. Bergen, LL. D. 

Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Edward J. Berwind 
Union N. Bethell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogcrt 
George C. Boldt 
Reginald Pelham Bolton 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
William A. Boring 
E. B. Boynton 


Names of Trustees in Italics.) 

Nicholas F. Brady 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc.D., 
Ph.D. 

C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D. EL. D. 
James W. Brown 
Andrew F. Burleigh 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL. D., 
Litt. D. 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Herman H. Cammann. 

Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon, Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
John Claflin 

Henry Clews, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Edward K. Cone 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

Edmund C. Converse 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

William E. Corey 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 


August 12, 1914 


279 


Walter S. Crandell 

Rev. R. Fulton Crary, D.D. 

John B. Creighton 

Hon. John D. Crimmins 

Hon. George Cromwell 

William N. Cromwell 

Warren Cruikshank 

Col. Michael J. Cummings 

Andrew Cuneo 

Hon. H. H. Curran 

R. Fulton Cutting, LL.D. 

Charles F. Daly 

Com. Fred. B. Dazell 

H. W. Dearborn 

Albert de Cernea 

Hon. Robert W. de Forest 

John D. DeFriest 

Joseph L. Delafield 

Richard Delafield 

William C. Demorest 

William D. Dickey 

Charles H. Ditson 

John Dowd 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling 
Edward A. Drake 
Henry Russell Dr own e 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Hon. William B. Ellison 
Amos F. Eno 
Hon. John E. Eustis 
Clarence L. Fabre 
Samuel W. Fairchild 
His Eminence John Cardinal 
Farley 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley Ph. D., LL. D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Berthold Flcsch, M.D. 


Joseph N. Francolini 
W. C. Freeman 
John C. Freund 
Henry C. Frick 
Charles H. Fuller 
Michael Furst 
Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 
Elbert H. Gary 
L. B. Gawtry 
James Gayley 
Charles E. Gehring 
John F. Geis 
Isaac Gimbel 
George J. Gould 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
J. B. Greenhut 

Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D. 

Henry E. Gregory 

T. Greidanus 

Murray Guggenheim 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 

William H. Hale, Ph.D. 

Edward Hagaman Hall L.H.D. 

Maj. Isaac A. Hall 

Matthew P. Halpin 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

Hon. John Hays Hammond 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Ernest Harvier 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy 

Col. H. O. S. Heistand, U.S.A. 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Lansing C. Holden 

Richard G. Hollaman 

William Homan 

R. H. Hooper 

John J. Hopper 

Major F. L. V. Hoppin 

Walter B. Hopping 

Roy W. Howard 


28 o 


Minutes of Trustees 


Hon. William B. Howland 
Hon. Charles E. Hughes 
Andrew B. Humphrey 
Archer M. Huntington, Litt. D. 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
Arthur Curtiss James 
A. E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D. C. S 

Prof. Henry P. Johnston 

William A. Johnston 

J. Harris Jones 

Laden Jouvand 

Otto H. Kahn 

Robert C. Kammerer 

Hon. Benjamin A. Keiley 

Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 

Cornelius G. Kolff 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Hans Lagerlof 

Charles R. Lamb 

Leopold L. Langrock 

Edward Lauterbach, LL.D. 

William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
Nelson P. Lewis 

W. V. Lifsey 
Austin W. Lord 
Stephen Lounsbery 
R. Fulton Ludlow 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Julius D. Mahr 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
Hon. Alrick H. Man 
William A. Marble 
Hon. Marcus M. Marks 
Hon. Douglas Mathewson 
William H. Maxwell, Ph. D., 
LL. D. 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Hon. Charles J. McCormack 


Alfred J. McGrath 

John J. McKelvey 

S. C. Mead 

William R. Mead 

Rev. H. Pereira Mendes, D.D. 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 

L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
Henry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M.D. 

Frank A. Munsey 

Joseph Brady Murray 

William C. Muschcnkeim 

Adolph I. Namm 

William A. Nash 

George L. Naught 

George W. Neville 

Hon. William W. Niles 

E A. Norman 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 

Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 

Hon. James A. O’Gorman 

Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 

Eben E. Olcott 

Robert Olyphant 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

John E. Parsons 

Wm. Barclay Parsons. LL.D. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. Frank L. Polk 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 

John A. Poynton 

Frederick B. Pratt 

Hon. William A. Pendergast 

Charles W. Price 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 

William E. Pulsifer 


August 12, 1914 


281 


A. A. Raven 
H. H. Raymond 
Norman B. Ream 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reick 
Charles E. Reid 
Daniel G. Reid 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Carl Ridemeister 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
George L. Rives, LL.D. 
Rev. Spencer S. Roche 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
F. Augustus Schermerhorn 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlesinger 
Walter Scott 
George Martin Seeley 
William B. Seldon 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Col. John L. Shepherd 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

William Simmons 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
Frank W. Smith 
George Carson Smith 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
Nelson S. Spencer 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 
Charles Steckler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 


John A. Stewart 
Hon. Wm. R. Stewart 
Anthony E. Stillger 
Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D. D. 
Edward W. Stitt, PhJD. 
Melville E. Stone 
Hon. Charles B.. Stover 
Jacob Stumpf 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 
Henry W. Taft 
Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Samuel Untermeyer 
Theodore N. Vail, LL.D. 

Lee J. Vance 

William S. Van Clief 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 

William K. Vanderbilt 

Abram Wakeman 

Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 

Hon. Judson G. Wall 

Henry Walters 

Hon. John Wanamaker 

Paul M. Warburg 

Whitney Warren 

Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 

Hon. James L. Wells 

Edmund Wetmore 

Major Robert A. Widenmann 

W. H. Wiley 

Hon. William R. Willcox 

Arthur Williams 

Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D. 

T. S. Williams 

Francis M. Wilson 

Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 

Charles B. Wolffram 

William J. Wollman 

Henry A. Wise Wood 

Otis Fenner Wood 

Major James Otis Woodward 

F. W. Wool worth 


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Minutes of Trustees 


James C. Young William Ziegler, Jr. 

John R. Young 

Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 


Albany . Hon. Joseph W. Stevens 

Amsterdam .Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn ..*.Hon. C. W. Brister 

Beacon .Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton . Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo .Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua .Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes . Hon. James S. Calkins 

Corning .Hon. Lewis N. Lattin 

Cortlandt .Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk .Hon. J. T. Sullivan 

Elmira .Hon. Harry N. Hoffman 

Fulton .Hon. Frank E. Fox 

Geneva .Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Gripping 

Gloversville .Hon. G. W. Schermerhorn 

Hornell .Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca .Hon Thomas Tree 

Jamestown .Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown .Hon. Clarence W. Smith 

Kingston . Hon. Palmer Canfield, Jr. 

Lackawanna .Hon. John I. Sidmey 

Little Falls .Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport .Hon. George A. Brock 

Middletown .Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh . Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Edward Stetson Griffin 

New York .Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

Niagara Falls .Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda .Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh .Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. W. H. Simpson 

Oneida .Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta .Hon. Joseph S. Lunn 

Oswego .Hon. Thomas F. Hennessey 

Plattsburgh .Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. Frank Lybolt 

Poughkeepsie . Hon..Daniel W. Wilber 

Rensselaer . Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester .Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 












































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283 


Rome .Hon. H. C. Midlam 

Schenectady .Hon. J. Teller Schoolcraft 

Syracuse . Hon. Louis Will 

Tonawanda .Hon. Albert J. Cordes 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica .Hon. James D. Smith 

Watertown . Hon. Isaac R. Breen 

Watcrvlict . Hon. Edwin W. Joslin 

honkers . Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton . 

Catskill . 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth . 

Cornwall . 

Coxsackie . 

Croton-on-Hudson 

Dobbs Ferry . 

Fishkill . 

Fort Edward . 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw . 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington . 

Mechanicville . 

North Tarrytown.. 

Nyack . 

Ossining . 

Peekskill . 

Piermont . 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck . 

Saugerties . 

Schuylerville . 

South Glens Falls... 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater . 

Tarrytown . 

Tivoli . 

Upper Nyack . 

Victory Mills . 

Wappingers Falls ... 

Waterford . 

West Haverstraw .. 


Hon. William M. Collier 
Hon. Christian Peters 
Hon. Willis A. Haines 
Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
Hon. J. Finley Work 
Hon. William B. Cocks 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
, Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. John F. Green 
Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 
Hon. Thomas H. Goundry 
Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
Hon. William R. Palmer 
Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 















































































































































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285 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

August 19, 1914 

The twenty-fourth meeting of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission was held in the library of Hon. 
Herman Ridder at No. 182 William Street, New York City, 
on Wednesday, August 19, 1914, at 2 p. m. 


Roll-Call 

Present: George Frederick Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., Pre¬ 
siding Vice President, in the chair; Mr. William J. Amend, 
Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert 
L. Bridgman, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. 
William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. Charles E. 
Reid, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Mr. Charles E. Spratt and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. 
E. A. Norman). 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Chancellor Elmer 
E. Brown, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Dr. John H. Finley, 
Com. Fred B. Dalzell, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, Col. Henry 
W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, 
Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and William S. Van Clief, and they 
were excused. 

Treasurer’s Report. 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
the accountant, Mr. J. J. Baird, presented the following 
report: 


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New York, August 19, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the Nezv York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen. — On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on August 18, 1914. 


RECEIPTS 


State Appropriation on account. 

Subscriptions direct._. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means Committee.... 
Subscriptions, for medals. 


To Aug. 
11, 1914 
$10,000 00 
1,800 00 
4,215 00 
468 10 


Aug. 11 to 
Aug. 18 


Total 

$10,000 00 
1,800 00 
4,215 00 
468 10 


$16,483 10 


$16,483 10 


Estimates Appro- 
approved, priations 
$5,000 00 $5,000 

5,000 
500 
10,000 
5,000 

500 00 500 

493 50 1,500 

1,000 
10,000 
7,495 00 15,000 

640 00 1,000 

468 
5,000 
5,ooo 

5,000 00 5,000 

5,000 
1,000 
1,000 
2,500 
5,000 

4,500 00 5,000 

5,625 00 7,500 


$96,968 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Classification 

Headquarters. $2,044 43 

Athletics. 

Auditing. 

Commercial exhibits. ... 1,225 75 

Educational institutions. 

Flag and poster. 

Finance and Ways and 

Means Committee.... 312 96 

Historical meetings. 77 25 

Illuminations. 

Local festivals. 

Medal and badge. 526 25 

Medals and cases 406 50 

Memorials. 

Museum exhibits. 8 50 


Music festivals.. 
Naval events. . . 
Panama canal... 
Peace Centennial 

Publicity. 

Street parades. . . 


Secretary’s salary. 4,000 00 

Director of commercial 

exhibits. 5,000 00 


$13,601 64 


$14 65 


209 50 


726 20 


$950 35 


$2,059 08 


1,225 75 


522 46 
77 25 


726 20 
526 25 
406 50 


8 50 


4,000 00 
5,000 00 
$ 14,551 99 


Excess of Receipts over Disbursements. 1,931 11 

In bank $1,881.11, on hand $50. 


LIABILITIES UNPAID 


Finance and Ways and Means 

Marshall B. Van Cott, salary, August 19. $75 00 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses, etc. 182 40 

W. J. Lee, traveling expenses, etc. 74 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses, etc. 10 05 

Local Festivals 

William F. Hamilton, second installment under contract for production 

of pageants..... . 1,0 oo 00 

William J. Lee, Chairman, payroll. 46 00 

H. B. Claflin Co., material for costumes. 478 78- 





































































































August 19, 1914 


287 


Headquarters 

Accountant’s services. $360 00 

Sundries. 50 00 

Director of commercial exhibits, salary, August. 625 00 


$2,901 63 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 


Received and ordered on file. 


Accountant. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Classification 

Local festivals, W. F. Hamilton, pageants. $1,000 00 

Local festivals, Wm. J. Lee, payroll. 46 00 

Local festivals, H. B. Claflin Co., materials. 475 78 

Headquarters, L. H. Bigelow & Co., account books. 15 65 

Headquarters, John J. Baird, disbursements. 11 40 

Headquarters, Western Union Telegraph Co., service. 9 80 

Headquarters, Kennedy Circ. Adv. Co., multigraphing. 3 00 

Ways and Means, M. B. Van Cott, Secretary, salary, August 20. 75 00 

Ways and Means, E. P. V. Ritter, travel expenses. 182 40 

Ways and Means, Wm J. Lee, travel expenses. 74 40 

Ways and Means, F. S. Bishop, travel expenses. 10 05 


$1,903 48 


Claims Referred 

A communication from Messrs. Edward F. Korbel and 
M. W. Colwell, of No. 1790 Broadway, dated August 13, 
1914, presenting a claim for $1,894.72 alleged to be due 
on account of services rendered and expenses incurred at 
the request of Mr. A. H. Stoddard in promoting an auto¬ 
mobile carnival, was referred to the Committee on Law 
and Legislation. 

A communication from Mr. A. H. Stoddard of No. 500 
Fifth Avenue, dated August 18, 1914, presenting a claim 
for $4,539.71 for disbursements alleged to have been made 
by him in behalf of the Commission while in its employ¬ 
ment, was referred to the Secretary for examination and 
report. 

A communication from Mr. A. A. Murphy, care of 
Herbert & Huesgen, No. 311 Madison Avenue, dated 
August 17, 1914, presenting a claim for $135 for photo¬ 
graphic work alleged to have been done for the Commis¬ 
sion on order of Mr. Stoddard, was referred to the Secre¬ 
tary for examination and report. 






















288 


Minutes of Trustees 


Following is a summary of the claims presented against 
the Commission by or on account of the alleged transactions 
of Mr. Stoddard: 


*Louis A. Risse, et al. (pp. 234, 241, 255, 266). $18,074 01 

Girard N. Whitney and Nelson Roberts (page 272). 3.166 64 

Edward F. Korbel and M. W. Colwell (page 287). 1,894 72 

A. H. Stoddard (page 287). 4.539 7 i 

A. A. Murphy (page 287). 135 00 


$27,810 08 


State Appropriation Available Two Years 

The Secretary read the following letter: 

State of New York, 

Comptroller's Office. 

Albany, August 13, 1914. 

Mr. John J. Baird, 

Accountant, Nezv York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission, 154 Nassau Street, New York City. 

Dear Sir. — Replying to your letter of the 12th instant, 
relative to the appropriation made for your Commission, 
this Department begs to advise you that this appropriation 
is good for two years from June 10, 1914, the date the 
bill was signed by the Governor. 

Very truly yours, 

William Soitmer, 

Comptroller. 

J. A. W. 


Resignation of Mr. Appleton 

The Secretary read the following letter: 

The Security Bank of New York, 

Fifth Avenue and 14TH Street, 

New York. 

August 18, 1914. 

Dr. E. Hagaman Hall, Secretary, 

Nezv York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, City. 

Dear Sir. — It seems almost impossible for me to attend 
meetings of the Commission at present, and as the condi- 


* The Law and Legislation Committee has reported that the Commission is under 
no liability for this claim. The others are under investigation. 











Au gust 19, 1914 289 

tions are not opportune for the raising of funds, I hereby 
tender my resignation as Trustee and Chairman of the 
Finance Committee. 

Regretting my inability to serve, I am, 

Yours very truly, 

R. Ross Appleton. 

The resignation was accepted with regret. 

Finance Committee Discharged 

To prevent the duplication of effort, it was voted that 
the Finance Committee be discharged with the thanks of 
the Trustees, and the duties heretofore placed upon it, 
either alone or jointly with the Ways and Means Committee, 
be transferred to the Ways and Means Committee. 

Harlem Home Week Carnival 

A communication dated August 14, 1914, from Mr. C. 
H. Fuller, Secretary of the Harlem Board of Commerce, 
at No. 290 Lenox Avenue, inviting the cooperation of this 
Commission with a “Home Week Carnival and Pageant ” 
to be held in Harlem in October or November was referred 
to the Committee on Commercial Pageants with power to 
cooperate, but without any expense to this Commission. 


Plan of Commercial Pageants 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Committee on Commercial 
Pageants, outlined the plans of that Committee for an Auto¬ 
mobile Parade on Wednesday evening, October 28, and a 
Commercial and Industrial Parade on the evening of 
October 31. 

The plan for the Commercial and Industrial Pageant con¬ 
templates having the Mayor, Board of Estimate and Board 
of Aldermen ride at the head of the procession; followed 
by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, President 
of the Merchants Association, and representatives of other 
commercial and mercantile bodies, and captains of industry. 
These, it is expected, will be followed by a group of 
mounted Indians; floats representing New York and other 
cities; and floats representing manufacture and commerce. 


290 


Minutes of Trustees 


Mr. Ames explained many of the details of the plans and 
made various definite recommendations. 

The recommendation that application be made to the 
Board of Aldermen for an appropriation of $50,000 was 
referred to the Ways and Means Committee with power. 

No action was taken on the recommendation that the 
solicitation of popular subscriptions be continued. 

The suggestion that the Commission leave a permanent 
memorial in the shape of an artistic, fire-proof reviewing 
stand, built in sections, so that it could be erected on 
occasions before the New York Public Library, was re¬ 
ferred back to the Committee for further report. 

The Committee recommended that the Governor be asked 
to designate special representatives of this Commission to 
visit Baltimore and request the Star Spangled Banner 
Centennial Committee of that city to send their floats to 
New York and it was so voted. Dr. Kunz ofifered to re¬ 
enforce the request in behalf of the American Scenic and 
Historic Preservation Society. 

Action on other recommendations is recorded under the 
next heading. 

The report was received, the dates and general plan 
approved; and the Committee thanked for its energetic 
work. 

Apportionment for Commercial Pageants 

It was voted that the sum of $2,875 be apportioned to 
the Committee on Commercial Pageants. 

The Commercial Pageants Committee was authorized, 
within its apportionment and upon an estimate to be sub¬ 
mitted for approval in the usual way, to employ the neces¬ 
sary help. 

Additions to Commercial Pageants Committee 

The Presiding Vice-President added Prof. Fleck and 
Mr. Joseph L. Delafield to the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee. which is now composed of the following gentlemen : 


August 19, 1914 


291 


Louis Annin Ames, Chairman 
Herbert L. Bridgman Cornelius G. Kolff 

Robert Grier Cooke Charles R. Lamb 

Joseph L. Delafield . William J. Lee 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck A. E. MacKinnon 

E. A. Norman 


Recommended for Appointment 

Mr. Ames recommended that Mr. Francis Wright Clinton, 
of 279 West 125th Street, and Dr. Kunz recommended that 
Mr. Hugh Gordon Miller, of 220 Broadway be nominated 
to the Mayor for appointment on the Commission. 
Referred to the Nominating Committee. 


Design and Decoration 

Mr. Lamb, Chairman of the Committee on Design and 
Decoration, reported that the Committee had approved of 
the designs for five floats for the Borden Company and 
one for the Fleischman Company. Lie said that the 
Committee would endeavor to standardize the designs 
in certain general ways. It would require that each float 
be drawn by at least four horses; that the trappings of 
the horses and drivers be uniform; that the wheels of the 
floats should conform with a common plan; that on the 
two front corners of each float should be banners repre¬ 
senting Commerce and Peace; and that the lettering on 
the floats should be Roman capital letters of a standard 
size. 

The report was received and approved. 


Publicity Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon, Chairman of the Publicity Committee, 
asked authority to hire a clerk at $15 a week. Granted. 

Commercial Exhibits November 5-26 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Committee 
on Commercial Exhibits, reported that the Committee had 


292 


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voted to recommend that the Commercial Exhibits be held 
from November 5 to November 26. 

The dates were approved. 


Proposition to Finance Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter laid before the Board a letter from 
Messrs. Nelson Roberts and Girard N. Whitney, of No. 
1400 Broadway, proposing to manage and finance the 
Commercial Exhibits under the auspices of this Commis¬ 
sion, including the Indian exhibit mentioned on pages 234 
and 274, without expense to the Commission; with the 
understanding that an admission fee of not more than 
50 cents be charged for the Indian exhibit, half of the net 
proceeds of which shall go to the National Indian Memorial 
Fund; and that 20 per cent of the net proceeds of the other 
exhibits shall go to the Commission. The proposition con¬ 
tinues : “ We will do the entire soliciting for participation 

and undertake the building and installation of the New 
York exhibit as well as all other expenses in connection 
with the exhibition. . . We will furnish bond in satis¬ 

factory amount to safeguard the interests of the enter¬ 
prise and protect the Tercentenary Commission.” 

The proposition was discussed by Messrs. E. P. V. Ritter, 
Spratt, MacKinnon, Kunz and others, the question being 
whether the Commission desired to avail itself of this 
method of conducting the exhibits without financial liability. 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that the Commercial Exhibits 
Committee, under the advice of the Law and Legislation 
Committee, be authorized to enter into a contract with 
Messrs. Roberts and Whitney or other proper parties to 
conduct the Commercial Exhibits, under the control of 
but without expense to this Commission; provided, if the 
contract be made with Messrs. Roberts and Whitney, it be 
upon condition that they withdraw their claim against this 
Commission mentioned on page 288. 

Carried. 


August 19, 1914 


293 


Official Programs 

Mr. Lee reported that the Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Craw- 
ford Co., offered to print 25,000 copies of the program for 
his committee for August 29, including scenario, pictures, 
etc., and a few advertisements, to sell at ten cents a copy, 
and give five per cent of the proceeds to this Commission. 

Approved. 

Mr. MacKinnon said that the Wynkoop-Hallenbeck- 
Crawford Co., had withdrawn every claim against the Com¬ 
mission for printing and renewed its offer to print the 
official program of the Commission under the supervision 
of the Commission and to pay it five per cent of the sales. 
The offer contemplated the inserting of advertisements ap¬ 
proved by this Commission. Mr. MacKinnon moved that 
the Publicity Committee be authorized to make an equitable 
arrangement with the company, the understanding being 
that the printing should involve the Commission in no 
expense, and that the Commission should receive five per 
cent of the gross proceeds. 

Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 












295 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

August 26, 1914 

j- 

The twenty-fifth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of the Hon. Herman Ridder at No. 182 William 
street, New York City, on Wednesday, August 26, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George F. Kunz, Vice President presiding; 
Mr. William J. Amend, Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry 
L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. William B. Howland, 
Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. A. E. 
MacKinnon, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Hon. Herman Ridder, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Dr. Ed¬ 
ward W. Stitt, and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. 
Norman). 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Commodore Fred B. 
Dalzell, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Dr. Henry 
Fairfield Osborn, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. 
Schifif and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were excused. 

Approval of Minutes 

The minutes of the last meeting were read, corrected * 
and approved. 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, Mr. 
John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following report: 


* Corrected before printing. 



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Minutes of Trustees 


New York, August 26, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the Nezv York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen. — On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. 
J. P. Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the fol¬ 
lowing report showing the condition of the accounts of 
the Commission on August 25, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation, on account. 

Subscriptions direct. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means Committee 
Subscriptions, for medals. 


To Aug. 18, Aug. 18 to 


1914 Aug. 25 Total 

$10,000 00 . $10,000 00 

1,800 00 $50 00 1,850 00 

4,215 00 100 00 4.315 00 

468,10 . 468 10 


$16,483 10 


$150 00 $16,633 10 


DISBURSEMENTS 

Estimates Appropria- 
approved tions Classification 


$5,000 

00 

$5,000 

Headquarters. 

$2,059 

08 

$39 85 

$2,098 

93 



5,000 

Athletics. 









500 

Auditing. 









10,000 

Commercial exhibits. 

1,225 

75 



1,225 

75 



2,875 

Commercial parades. 









5,000 

Educational institutions. . . 







500 

00 

500 

Flag and poster. 







493 

50 

1,500 

V a /s and Means. 

522 

46 

75 

00 

597 

46 



1,000 

Historical meetings. 

77 

25 



77 

25 



10,000 

Illuminations. 







7,495 

00 

15,000 

Local festivals. 

726 

20 

1,046 

00 

X , 772 

20 

640 

00 

1,000 

Medal and badge. 

526* 

25 



526 

25 

468 

00 

468 

Medals purchased. 

406 

50 



406 

50 



5,000 

Memorials. 









5,000 

Museum exhibits. 

8 

50 



8 

50 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

Music festivals. 









5,000 

Naval events. 









1,000 

Panama Canal. 









1,000 

Peace centennial. 









2,500 

Publicity. 









5,000 

Street parades. 







4,500 

00 

5,000 

Secretary’s salary. 

4,000 

00 



4,000 

00 

5,625 

00 

5,625 

Director of commercial ex- 










hibits, salary. 

5,ooo 

00 



5,ooo 

00 



$ 97,968 


$i 4 , 55 i 

99 

$1,160 

85 

$15,712 

84 


Balance in bank August 25, 1914. 920 26 


LIABILITIES UNPAID 

Ways and Means: 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses, etc. $182 40 

W. J. Lee, traveling expenses, etc. 74 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses, etc. 10 05 

Headquarters: 

Accountant’s services. 400 00 

The Schindler Co., special services investigating. 34 35 

Sundries. 50 00 

Commercial parades: 

Louis Annin Ames, chairman, payroll and disbursements. 73 32 

Director of commercial exhibits, salary, August. 625 00 

Local festivals: 

William F. Hamilton, third instalment under contract for production 

of pageants, due August 28th. 2,500 00 

H. B. Claflin Co., material for costumes. 475 78 

W. J. Lee, payroll... 61,00 

Michael A. Jones and 24 other school principals, costumes and fares. . 344 42 

Dieges & Clust, celluloid buttons. 360 80 

J. A. Koehler & Co., costumes. 46 50 

J. N. Kofoed, platform. 75 00 






































































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Local festivals :—Continued 

Annin & Co., flags. $101 16 

Abraham & Straus, costume materials. 285 39 

John Wanamaker, costume materials. 210 30 

Harry Keitel, cutting costumes. 20 00 

H. J. Silverman, fares, postage, etc. 90 50 

Wm. P. Kielgast, music. 150 00 

Leo I. Kearney, dyeing, materials, etc. 17 31 

Anthony V. Cicio, band. 25 00 

Louis Stengele, platform. 60 00 

M. Eliscu, costume materials. 5 70 

Lillian Axel, stenographer. 18 00 

Weil & Baer, costumes. 64 70 

M. J. Tobin, printing. 194 00 

Hubert O’Mara, decorations. 5 00 

Schoverling, Daly & Gales, tent. 5 75 

Thomas P. Ward, band. 135 00 

Frederick W. Bent, band. 150 00 


$6,850 83 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


Received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Classification 

Headquarters. The Schindler Co., special services. $34 35 

Commercial pageants L. A. Ames, disbursements and payroll. 73 32 

Local festivals. Wm. J. Lee, payroll. 61 00 

Wm. F. Hamilton, on account pageants. 2,500 00 

H. B. Claflin Co., materials. 475 78 

Michael A. Jones and 24 other school principals, 

costumes and fares. 344 42 

Dieges & Clust, celluloid buttons. 360 80 

J. A. Koehler & Co., costumes. 46 50 

J. N. Kofoed, platform. 75 00 

Annin & Co., flags. 101 16 

Abraham & Straus, costume materials. 285 39 

John Wanamaker, costume materials. 210 30 

Harry Keitel, cutting costumes. 20 00 

H. J. Silverman, fares, postage, etc. 90 50 

Wm. F. Kielgast, music.. 150 00 

Leo I. Kearney, dyeing, materials, etc. 17 31 

Anthony V. Cicio, band. 25 00 

Louis Stengele, platform... 60 00 

M, Eliscu, costume materials. 5 70 

Lillian Axel, stenographer. 18 00 

Weil & Baer, costumes. 64 70 

M. J. Tobin, printing. 194 00 

Hubert O’Mara, decorations. 5 00 

Schoverling, Daly & Gales, tent. 5 75 

Thomas P. Ward, band. 135 00 

Frederick W. Bent, band. 150 00 


$ 5,508 98 


Unpaid Subscriptions 

The Secretary laid before the Board a list of unpaid 
subscriptions amounting to $2,490. Referred to the Ways 
and Means Committee. 





















































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Apportionment to Local Festivals Committee 

A special contribution of $50 received from Hearn & Sons 
for transportation of children for the Local Festivals Com¬ 
mittee was added to the previous apportionment for that 
committee (page 220) making the total apportionment for 
Local Festivals $15,050. 


Estimate for Local Festivals Approved 

The Local Festivals Committee submitted an estimate of 
$500 for additional clerks, stenographers, incidentals, etc., 
and $1,000 for children's costumes and equipment and 
music, to be paid out of the apportionment for that com¬ 
mittee. 

Approved, subject to approval by the Estimates Com¬ 
mittee. 

Suits of James II. Wells and Others 

The Secretary reported that on August 20 he had been 
served with summons and complaint by Mr. Frederick 
Durgan, counsellor-at-law, of No. 149 Broadway, in six 
suits brought by Messrs. James H. Wells, George W- 
Swaine, Bernard H. Menge, Allan K. Alexander, John L. 
Cockle and Henry L. Boughton, claiming damages of 
$3,000 each for alleged breach of contract in discontinuing 
the solicitation of subscriptions. The Secretary had re¬ 
ferred them to the Committee on Law and Legislation. 
The Secretary then read the report of the Law and Legis¬ 
lation Committee on the subject, which was to the effect 
that previous to the dates of the alleged agreements the 
plaintiffs had signed a waiver, agreeing to work without 
compensation unless authorized in writing by the Ways and 
Means Committee ; and no such authorization had been 
given. 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter said that the plaintiffs had been sent 
to him by Mr. A. H. Stoddard, that he would have nothing 
to do with them until they had signed the waiver referred to. 

The matter was referred back to the Law and Legislation 
Committee with the request that the Committee give it such 
further attention as might be necessary. 


August 26, 1914 


299 


Claims of A. H. Stoddard 

The Secretary reported that pursuant to the resolution of 
August 5 (page 266) he had on August 6 notified Mr. A. H. 
Stoddard of the termination of the contract between him 
and the Commission. The Secretary stated that Mr. 
Stoddard’s salary had been paid only for the months of 
December, 1913, and January, 1914. The question of the 
payment of salary claimed to be due but unpaid was re¬ 
ferred to the Law and Legislation Committee. 

The question of repealing such part of the apportion¬ 
ment made July 8 (page 220) for the Director of Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits and Pageantry as might not be needed for 
that purpose was referred to the Committee on Law and 
Legislation. 

The Secretary reported progress on the examination of 
Mr. Stoddard’s claim for disbursements amounting to 
$ 4 > 539 - 7 z (page 2 S/) and of Mr. A. A. Murphy for $135 
(page 287). 

Permanent Memorial 

A communication dated August 20, 1914, from Mr. H. 
Van Buren Magonigle, concerning his work in preparing 
revised designs for the Watergate, was read. It was to 
the effect that the Commission having approved of the 
recommendation of the Memorials Committee (pages 156- 
159) and the form of contract with him (page 209) he 
had gone ahead with his work on Dr. Hooper's assurance 
that the execution of the contract was then a mere matter 
of routine. Meanwhile, Dr. Hooper had died and the State 
Comptroller had withheld his approval of the contract. 
Mr. Magonigle therefore asked for an interview with the 
proper officers or committee to discuss the situation. 

The Secretary explained that after the approval of the 
Magonigle contract as to form by the Contracts Committee, 
Dr. Hooper had asked him to have it executed by the 
officers of the Commission. As the only funds available 
were State funds, however, the Secretary had, as a pre¬ 
cautionary measure, submitted the contract for his approval 
to the State Comptroller in a letter dated July 13. The 


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Comptroller had withheld his approval on the ground that 
he found “ no reference in the law which requires a con¬ 
tract of this character/’ The Comptroller’s office subse¬ 
quently, on July 27, explained verbally to Mr. J. J. Baird, 
the Commission's accountant, that the objection was on the 
ground that the contract proposed a disbursement of $5,000 
by the Commission toward an object for the carrying out 
of which to completion it was not responsible. The Comp¬ 
troller, however, intimated that he was open to further 
representations on the subject. Dr. Hooper had previously 
written to the Secretary that if the Comptroller was in 
doubt about approving the contract he would take up the 
matter with the Comptroller. The Secretary had informed 
Mr. Magonigle of the situation. He had also written to 
the same effect on August 11 to Mr. H. W. Dearborn, Secre¬ 
tary of the Robert Fulton Watergate Association which 
expected to sign a similar contract with Mr. Magonigle. 
In the letter to Mr. Dearborn, the Secretary said: “ I write 
thus frankly to you so that if the signing of your contract 
is dependent in any way upon our signing ours, you will 
be fully advised of our situation.” 

After a brief discussion, in which Messrs. Spratt, Stitt, 
Fleck, Reid and others participated, it was voted that the 
matter be referred to the Law and Legislation Committee. 

Committee Changes 

The Vice President presiding appointed Mr. Bridgman 
a member of the Committee on Estimates (page 221) in 
place of Mr. Appleton resigned. The Committee now con¬ 
sists of the President, the Presiding Vice President, the 
Secretary, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee and Mr. Bridgman. 

Mr. Freund was added to the Committee on Music 
Festivals. 

Mr. Crandall was added to the Committee on Peace 
Centennial. 

All of the members of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee were added to the Publicity Committee. 


August 26, 1914 


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Commercial Pageants Committee 

It was voted that the title of the committee having charge 
of automobile parade and the commercial and industrial 
parade, be the Commercial Pageants Committee, to dis¬ 
tinguish it from the Street Parades Committee of which 
Gen. Dyer is Chairman, the function of the Commercial 
Pageants Committee being to organize and arrange for the 
parades, while that of the Street Parades Committee is 
chiefly to marshal and assist in the execution of the parades 
at the time of their occurrence. 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, reported the engagement of Mr. Albert de Cernea 
as Director of Pageants for a term of twelve weeks at a 
salary of $100 a week, and an allowance of not more than 
$300 for expenses, and of Mr. R. W. Annin as solicitor for 
a period of ten weeks at $40 a week. Mr. Annin would 
solicit not as the representative of the Commission, but 
under the direction of the Commercial Pageants Committee 
as representing “ New York’s 300th Business Birthday,” 
and his calling cards would bear the latter designation. 
Letters were being sent out soliciting participation. The 
proposed formation of the Commercial Pageant was out¬ 
lined. A form of entry blank approved by the Contracts 
Committee was laid before the Board. The Tidewater 
Standard Co., was soliciting the building of floats, and the 
Committee recommended that the company be permitted to 
use the entry blank of this Commission in connection with 
such solicitation. 

In the discussion of the last recommendation, it appeared 
to be the consensus of the Trustees that it be approved upon 
condition that the Tidewater Standard Co., give the Com¬ 
mission assurance that it had no claim against it. 

The recommendation concerning the use of the Com¬ 
mission’s entry blanks for the Commercial Pageant by the 
Tide Water Standard Co., was referred to the Chairman 
of the Law and Legislation Committee, the Chairman of 
the Commercial Exhibits Committee and the Secretary 
with power. 


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Resignation of Albert de Cernea 

The resignation of Mr. Albert de Cernea as a member 
of the Commission, dated August 21, 1914, was accepted. 

Election of John C. Freund as trustee 

Prof. Fleck moved that Mr. John C. Freund be elected 
a member of the Board of Trustees. 

Carried. 

Nominated to the Mayor for Appointment 

It was voted that His Honor the Mayor of New York be 
requested to appoint as members of the Commission Messrs. 
Francis Wright Clinton and Hugh Gordon Miller whose 
names were proposed at the last meeting (page 291). 

Arrangement with Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawf ord Co. 

The Secretary read a letter dated August 25 from the 
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawf ord Co., consenting to print the 
Official Program under the direction of the Commission, 
“ the Commission to receive 5 per cent of the gross pro¬ 
ceeds of this work and not to be involved in any expense 
in reference to same.” (See page 293) 

Co-operation with Brooklyn Institute 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Herman Stutzer, 
Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Insti¬ 
tute of Arts and Sciences, dated August 20, stating that 
the late Dr. Hooper had in mind the holding of a joint 
meeting of the Tercentenary Commission and the Institute 
on Monday evening, October 12, in the Brooklyn Academy 
of Music, and expressing the desire to carry out Dr. 
Hooper’s wishes. 

Referred to Mr. Bridgman. 

Peace Centennial 

Mr. Howland, Chairman of the Peace Centennial Com¬ 
mittee, spoke briefly on the subject of the plans of that 
committee. He said that Prof. Fleck, Chairman of the 
Music Festivals Committee, had suggested a public meeting 
with addresses and music appropriate to the peace idea, but 
the committee had not yet formed any definite plan. 


August 26, 1914 


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Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial 
Exhibits Committee, read the following report: 

Your Committee on Commercial Exhibits at their last 
meeting appointed a sub-committee consisting of Messrs. 
Otis Fenner Wood, Charles E. Spratt and F. S. Bishop to 
thoroughly canvass the matter of the Exhibition, and to 
devise ways and means for financing it. 

hhe Tide Water Standard Construction Company, who 
have already invested several thousand dollars in prepara¬ 
tion of facades, buildings, etc., representing the “ Streets of 
Old New York,” were called into a conference and have 
signified their intention of proceeding with the promotion 
and operation of the Tercentenary Exhibition upon the 
following basis: 

(1) They are to have one week in which they agree to 
make a thorough canvass of the firms and corporations 
that have been solicited, with a view of securing their co¬ 
operation in signing contracts for space in “ Old New 
York/’ 

(2) If, at the expiration of a week, they find the Ex¬ 
hibition can be made a success, they are willing to under¬ 
take the management of it, and solicitation of exhibition 
space (the exhibition to be held under the auspices of the 
Commission) with the understanding that the Exhibition 
will have the hearty support of the Members of the Board 
of Trustees. 

(3) The Commission to appropriate seventy-five hundred 
dollars ($7,500) and they to advance a like amount, making 
a total capital of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). From 
this fund is to be first paid the expenses of the Exhibition, 
which have been estimated, as follows: 


Publicity . $2,500.00 

Operation . 2,000.00 

Other necessary expenses. 2,500.00 

Account of rent of building. . . . 5,000.00 


Making a total of. $12,000.00 


The remaining $3,000 of capital and additional amounts 
secured by the sale of space to exhibitors is to be divided 
proportionately between the Tide Water Construction Com¬ 
pany and the Grand Central Palace until the Tide Water 
Construction Company has been reimbursed for their ex- 







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penditures at cost price in constructing buildings and facades 
for “ Old New York,” and the Grand Central Palace rent. 

The Tide Water Construction Company to be paid all 
amounts received from the proceeds of the Exhibition until 
their $7,500 investment has been returned. The Commis¬ 
sion to receive the next $7,500 and any amounts received 
thereafter to be divided equally between the Tide Water 
Construction Company and the Commission. 

This proposition is submitted today with the hope that 
the Trustees will set aside out of the $10,000 appropriated 
for the Commercial Exhibits Committee $7,500 to be used, 
if necessary, provided a like amount is advanced by the 
Tide Water Construction Company. 

It is only fair to say that the Tide Water Construction 
Company having invested in the neighborhood of about 
$7,000 and the Grand Central Palace having reserved the 
building for some three months without being reimbursed, 
thereby sustaining a great loss, that the Commission should 
aid in making the Exhibition a success, by lending their 
moral support and making the above appropriation; and 
considering the magnitude of the enterprise as one of the 
greater features of the celebration, the $7,500 just asked 
for is not a very large appropriation for the purposes 
named. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. P. V. Ritter. 

Mr. Spratt supplemented the report by verbal explana¬ 
tions. He heartily endorsed the plan recommended, which 
was based on a two-weeks exhibition. Admission to the 
Commercial Exhibits would be free upon invitations issued 
by the Commission. A small fee would be charged for 
admission to the Indian Exhibit if that feature was carried 
out. 

Mr. Lamb moved that the report be received and ap¬ 
proved. 

Carried. 

Ways and Means Committee 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, as Chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee, moved that room No. 717 in the Tribune Build¬ 
ing engaged for the work of that committee be vacated. 

Carried. 


305 


August 26, 1914 

Contracts Committee 

Mr. Bogert, in behalf of the Hon. Robert L. Harrison, 
Chairman of the Contracts Committee, submitted the fol¬ 
lowing partial report of the Committee’s work: 

To the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission: 

Gentlemen. — On behalf of the Committee on Contracts, 
I wish to submit the following, as a partial statement of 
its work which, in the absence of the Chairman and a 
majority of its members, may be supplemented later for 
the purposes of your records. 

On June 18, 1914, the Committee met and discussed the 

proposed contract with H. Van Buren Magonigle, under 

which the Commission proposed to co-operate with the 

Robert Fulton National Water Gate Association in the 

• 

erection of a permanent memorial at Riverside Park, be¬ 
tween 109th and 1 nth Streets, providing for the revision 
and expansion of the original design and payment to the 
architect contractor of $5,000. The suggested contract was 
approved as to form with certain suggestions and correc¬ 
tions, after receiving the scrutiny of the Chairman and 
Messrs. Spencer and Bogert. 

A proposed contract with Mr. Blaine was taken up by the 
Committee on July 24, 1914, and was rejected for various 
reasons set forth by the Chairman and Mr. Bogert. 

On July 27, 1914, contract with IV. F. Hamilton was 
considered by the Chairman and Mr. Bogert and was sub¬ 
stantially rewritten and reported to the Commission shortly 
thereafter. This contract proposed to take charge of a 
pageant in each of the boroughs of the Greater New York. 

On July 31, 1914, a contract with Mr. Blaine , dealing 
with the subject of commissions and disposition of floor 
space, etc., was prepared by the Chairman, and, after re¬ 
ceiving the approval of Mr. Bogert was transmitted to the 
Secretary. 

On August 3, 1914, the revised contract with Mr. Hamil¬ 
ton was transmitted to the Commission in due course. 

On August 5, 1914, contract with Amenda Floryn, pro¬ 
viding for producing grand opera in the parks of the city, 
was examined and rewritten, and the form of option for 
use of the Grand Central Palace, blank form of lease for 
said use, and the proposed contract (for space) between 
the Commission and the Exhibitors, were all examined and 
corrected and passed on to the Commission with the sug¬ 
gestions of the Committee. 


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The proposed application for floats in the Commercial 
Pageant was examined and sent, with corrections and sug¬ 
gestions, to the Commission by the Chairman, on or about 
August 21. 

On August 25, 1914, contracts were prepared for the em¬ 
ployment of Richard W. Annin to solicit entries in the 
Commercial Parade and contracts with de Cernea to take 
charge of Automobile, Municipal and Commercial Parades, 
until the same have been completed and carried through. 
These last, on account of the absences above noted, were 
necessarily committed to the judgment of Messrs. McKelvey 
and Bogert alone. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Henry L. Bogert, 

For the Committee. 

August 26, 1914. 

Received and approved. 

Official Flag and Poster 

On recommendation of Mr. Ames, it was voted that any 
firm of flag-makers be authorized by the Flag and Poster 
Committee to manufacture and sell the official flag of the 
Commission, provided the manufacturer followed the speci¬ 
fications of the Commission and marked the flags with the 
Commission’s copyright. 

Mr. Ames reported that the Flag and Poster Committee, 
acting under the resolutions of July 22 (page 239) and 
August 12 (page 275) had engaged Mr. Frederick S. Lamb, 
the well-known artist, to design the Official Poster, for the 
sum of $250. 

Approved. 

Official Badge 

Mr. Reid moved that the word “ Trustee ” be put on the 
bars of the Official Badges of members of the Board of 
Trustees. (See pages 239, 253.) 

Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

September 2, 1914 

i he twenty-sixth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William street, 
on Wednesday, September 2, 1914, at 2 p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: The President, Gen. Howard Carroll; Mr. 
Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. 
Bridgman, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Prof. 
Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Hon. Robert 
L. Harrison, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Dr. George Frederick 
Kunz, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. 
Edward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt and Mr. Arthur 
Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

The arrival of Gen. Carroll, who had been abroad since 
his election as President (page 213) was recognized by 
applause and by the Trustees standing. Gen. Carroll made 
a brief acknowledgment of the compliment and asked 
Dr. Kunz to preside. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Hon. Jacob A. 
Cantor, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Commodore Fred B. 
Dalzell, Dr. John H. Finley, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 
and Mr. Jacob PI. Schiff, and they were excused. 

Reading of Minutes 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, Mr. 
John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following report: 


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New York, Sept. 2, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 


Gentlemen. — O11 behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on September 1, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation, on account 

Subscriptions, direct. 

Subscriptions. Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Aug. 26, Aug. 26 to 

1914 Sept. 1 Total 

$10,000 00 . $10,000 00 

1,850 00 . 1,850 00 

4,315 00 $100 00 4 , 4 i 5 00 

468 10 . .. 468 10 

. 35 00 35 00 


$16,633 10 $135 00 $16,768 10 


DISBURSEMENTS 


approved 

t ions 

Classification 






$5,000 

00 

$5,000 

Headquarters. 

$2,098 

93 


$2,098 

93 



5,ooo 

Athletics. 








500 

Auditing. 








10,000 

Commercial exhibits. 

1,225 

75 


1.225 

75 

1,500 

00 

2,875 

Commercial pageants. 



$73 32 

73 

32 



5,ooo 

Educational institutions. . . 






500 

00 

500 

Flag and poster. 






493 

50 

1,500 

Wavs and Means. 

597 

46 


597 

46 



1,000 

Historical meetings. 

77 

25 


77 

25 



10,000 

Illuminations. 






8,995 

00 

15,050 

Local festivals. 

1,772 

20 

3,036 78 

4,808 

98 

640 

00 

1,000 

Medal and badge. 

526 

25 


526 

25 

468 

00 

468 

Medals purchased. 

406 

50 


406 

50 



5,ooo 

Memorials. 








5,000 

Museum exhibits. 

8 

50 


8 

50 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

Music festivals. 








5,000 

N aval events. 








1,000 

Panama Canal. 








1,000 

Peace centennial. 








2,500 

Publicity. 








5,000 

Street parades. 






4,500 

00 

5,ooo 

Secretary’s salary. 

4,000 

00 


4,000 

00 

5,625 

00 

5,625 

Director of commercial ex- 









hibits, salary. 

O 

O 

O 

IO 

00 


5,ooo 

00 


$98,018 


$15,712 84 $3,110 10 $18,822 94 
Excess of disbursements over receipts Sept. 1,1914 2,054 84 


LIABILITIES UNPAID 

Ways and Means: 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. $182 40 

W. J. Lee, traveling expenses. 74 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. xo 05 

Headquarters: 

Accountant’s services. 495 00 

The Schindler Co., special services investigating. 34 35 

The Tribune Association, rent. 30 00 

The Argus Co., printing. 47 24 

New York Telephone Co. 8 23 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigiaphing. 9 00 

De-fi Mfg. Co., stationery. 3 00 

State law stenographers. 23 80 

Sundries . 50 00 

Commercial pageants: 

Polhemus Printing Co. 32 50 

Albert de Cernea, salary. 125 00 

Landsberg Bios. 1 50 

Louis Annin Ames, paid salaries and expenses. 70 80 











































































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September 2, 1914 


Director cf commercial exhibits: 

Salary for August. 

Local festivals: 

William J. Lee, payroll. 

Bills for local festivals: 

q^' A J one9 an d 24 other school principals, costumes and fares . . 

Sundry accounts payable, costumes, music, etc. 

Medals purchased from Tiffany & Co. 


$625 00 

79 00 

344 42 
2,020 11 
72 00 


$ 4,337 80 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


Received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved, for Payment 

1 he following bills * were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Commercial pageants: 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. $32 50 

Albert de Cernea, salary, August 29th. 125 00 

Landsbeig Bros., stamp and pad.. . . 1 50 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll and disbursements to August 29th. 70 80 

Local festivals: 

William J. Lee, payroll, August 29th. 79 00 

Headquarters: 

Tribune Association, rent room 809, September. 30 00 

Argus Co., printing... 47 24 

New York Telephone Co., service. 8 23 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. 9 00 

De-fi Manufacturing Co., carbon. 3 00 

State Law Stenographers, stenography. 23 80 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accounting. 495 00 


$925 07 


Unpaid Bills Contracted by A. H. Stoddard 

The Secretary reported that on August 27, 1914, he had 
had a protracted interview with Mr. A. H. Stoddard in 
regard to the forty-seven items of his claim for disburse¬ 
ments amounting to $4,539.71, referred to on page 287, 
with a view to learning what necessity there was and what 
authority, if any, he had for the various expenditures. In 
the course of the interview, 'the Secretary inquired if these 
items comprised all his claims for disbursements, and if 
he had contracted any similar bills which he had not paid. 
Mr. Stoddard having replied that there were a few more 
items of disbursements and several unpaid bills contracted 
by him, the Secretary told him that his claim could not be 
passed 011 until the Commission knew its whole extent. He 
was therefore requested to send to the Secretary on or 


* See also approval of Hamilton bill for $ 1,000 on page 314 following. 

























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before September i any further items claimed by him for 
disbursements and also any unpaid bills contracted by him, 
and he promised to do so. Since then no further items for 
disbursements had been rendered; but on August 31 Mr. 
Stoddard sent to the Secretary the unpaid bills of 24 parties 
aggregating $3,118.36 which the Secretary had under con¬ 
sideration. 

On the same day, August 27, the Secretary wrote Mr. 
Stoddard requesting him to deliver to the Secretary on or 
before September 1, all account books, files, correspondence 
or other property in his possession belonging to the Com¬ 
mission, to which request there had been no response. 


Suit by A. H. Stoddard for Salary and Disbursements 

The Secretary reported that on September 1, Mr. Freder¬ 
ick Durgan, counsellor-at-law, of No. 149 Broadway, served 
on the Secretary a summons and complaint in a suit by 
A. H. Stoddard alleging four claims for salary and dis¬ 
bursements, namely: First, for salary from May 14, 1913, 
to December 1, 1913, $4,062.50; second, for disbursements 
during that period, $1,625; third, unpaid salary for part 
of the period from December 1, 1913, to August 31, 1914, 
$4,375; and fourth, disbursements during that period, 
$4>539-53 — a total of $15,602.03. 

Referred to the Committee on Law and Legislation. 

The Secretary gave the following recapitulation of the 
claims presented against the Commission by or on account 
of Mr. Stoddard: 


Risse et al. (pp. 234, 241, 255, 266. 288). $18,074 01 

Whitney and Roberts (pp. 272, 288). 3,166 64 

Korbel and Colwell (pp. 287, 288). x 8 oj. 72 

Wells et al (p. 25,8). .'.. ! A . oot 00 

A. H. Stoddard (p. 310)*. 15,602 03 

Unpaid bills contracted by Stoddard (p. 309)*. 3,118 36 


359,855 76 


The Secretary said that the Law Committee had already 
reported that the Risse claim (pp. 255-256) was groundless 
as against the Commission, and he believed that most of 
the others were equally invalid. 


* Includes claims mentioned on page 287. 












September 2, 1914 


3 ii 


Executive Session 

The Board then went into Executive session but took no 
action therein. 

Upon the resumption of the open session, certain recom¬ 
mendations made by the Secretary were referred to the 
Committee on Law and Legislation. 

Commercial Pageants Committee 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, spoke of the difficult situation created by Mr. Stod¬ 
dard in connection with the proposed automobile parade 
before the Commission terminated its contract with Mr. 
Stoddard, but said that his committee had succeeded in 
cultivating good relations with the automobile interests and 
that the prospect of a successful parade was very good. 
He asked the privilege of the floor for Mr. Albert De 
Cernea who was working under the direction of the Com¬ 
mittee on this branch of its duties, and Mr. De Cernea 
made a verbal report on progress thus far made. Both 
Mr. Ames and Mr. De Cernea urged the necessity of 
greater publicity and suggested the desirability of hanging 
out street banners advertising the tercentenary. Mr. Ames 
also reported progress on the organization of the commercial 
parade. 

Mr. Norman and Mr. Lee endorsed the suggestion about 
street banners. 


Estimate and Apportionment Approved 

An estimate of expenses covering the apportionment of 
$2,875 heretofore made for the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee (page 290) was approved. 

Mr. Lamb moved that the apportionment of $5,000 made 
for the Committee on Naval Events (page 221) be re¬ 
scinded. Carried. 

Mr. Lamb moved that $3,000 be apportioned to the Com¬ 
mercial Pageants Committee in addition to the $2,875 here¬ 
tofore apportioned to that Committee. Carried. 


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Minutes of Trustees 


Use of Commission's Entry Blanks 

Mr. Ames recommended that Mr. W. F. Hamilton of 
No. 1425 Broadway, builder of floats, be permitted to use 
the Commission’s entry blanks in securing entries in the 
Commission’s parades. Granted. 


Commercial Exhibits Committee 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial Ex¬ 
hibits Committee, laid before the Board a letter from Mr. 
A. Milton Napier, President of the Tide Water Standard 
Co., dated September 2, 1914, proposing to manage and 
finance the commercial exhibits at the Grand Central Palace 
from November 7 to November 21, subject to the approval 
of the Commission, upon the following conditions: The 
company and this Commission each to bear $7,500 of the 
expense; and the Commission to provide certain illumina¬ 
tions, furnish publicity and give hearty support; the com¬ 
pany to have the privilege of publishing and selling the 
official catalogue of the exhibition and other souvenirs; 
one-half of the profits of the commercial exhibits and 20 
per cent, of the profits of the catalogue and souvenirs to 
go to the Commission. Mr. Ritter said that the under¬ 
standing was that the Commission should not be financially 
obligated beyond the terms stated in the letter. 

Mr. Ritter explained the circumstances under which the 
proposition was made and said he believed it was in the 
interest of the Commission. 

Mr. Spratt heartily endorsed the proposition. 

The Secretary called attention to certain details of the 
plan which would require modification. 

It was voted that the proposition be approved and that 
the Committee on Contracts be requested to embody it in 
contract form for execution with such modifications as 
should be necessary to secure the interests of the Com¬ 
mission. 

Local Festivals Held. 

Mr. Lee laid before the Board reports written by Dr. 
Stitt in regard to the Local Festivals held by the Commis¬ 
sion in connection with the Board of Education playgrounds 


313 


Septembsr 2, 1914 

at Curtis Athletic Field on Staten Island on Wednesday, 
August 12; at Brooklyn Athletic Field on Tuesday, August 
18, and at Crotona Athletic Field in the Bronx on Wednes¬ 
day, August 19; and Mr. Lee made a verbal report on the 
pageant held by the Commission in connection with the 
Park Commission in Central Park on Saturday, August 29. 
All four of these celebrations were brilliant successes. 

Dr. Kunz, who was present at the Central Park celebra¬ 
tion, praised it very highly, and gave great credit to the 
Chairman of the Committee. 

It was voted that the thanks of the Board be given to 
Mr. Lee for the excellent work of his Committee. 


Plan of Local Festivals Modified 

The Secretary laid before the Board the following letter 
from Mr. Lee: 

September 1, 1914. 

Dr. E. IT. Hall, Esq., Executive Secretary , 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, New York City. 

Dear Sir.— After going over the plans of the Festivals 
and Pageants Committee,! I find that it will be impossible 
for me to carry out the rest of the programme in the other 
four Boroughs as originally planned, for the reason that 
there is no organization to take up the work in conjunction 
with this Bureau! and the Committee in those Boroughs. 

The Playground Association has discontinued its work 
in the Bronx Parks. There is an inadequate playground 
organization in the Borough of Queens and Brooklyn; they 
have never conducted any pageantry before and are un¬ 
able to cope with the situation. The Pageant of Brooklyn * 
has also been postponed until next May. However, these 
fields have been covered by Dr. Stitt’s organization. 

The Pageant of Manhattan given on Saturday, August 
29th, at Central Park was very successful. I will have 
the floats together with the children of the playgrounds of 
Staten Island at the Dongan Hills Staten Island County 
Fair on “ Children’s Day,” September 2, 1914. 

The programme has been altered several times owing to 
the indecision as to whether we would proceed on account 

*See page 253. f Local Festivals Committee. t Bureau of Recreation of the 
Park Department, of which Mr. Lee is Supervisor. 



314 


Minutes of Trustees 


of the War, therefore I have been unable to hold the in¬ 
terest of outside organizations who were to co-operate and 
furnish a great number of the participants and music, etc. 
This falling off of co-operation naturally increased the ex¬ 
pense of this Committee in the last two weeks. I have, 
however, succeeded in organizing a co-operative plan be¬ 
tween the Harlem Board of Commerce Carnival Committee 
and this Committee for the last week in October. I am going 
to conduct the children’s pageant of Harlem in co-operation 
with that body on October 31st, and will use the floats 
and properties in the Carnival. 

We will also use the floats and properties in the In¬ 
dustrial Parade on the evening of October 31st. I am 
trying to make the best possible use of our equipment and 
it is my judgment and the judgment of the Industrial Com¬ 
mittee that we centralize our efforts hereafter in Man¬ 
hattan. All of the five Boroughs have had a “ Children’s ” 
Celebration under the joint direction of the Local Festivals 
Committee, the Board of Education and the Department 
of Parks. 

Mr. Hamilton who designed and built the floats for this 
Committee has agreed, (although his contract calls for the 
termination of his service September 5th) to reproduce the 
floats October 31st in the Harlem Carnival, afternoon and 
evening, without further expense to this Commission, with 
the exception of the storage of the properties. 

I therefore suggest that the final payment of $1,000 be 
given him in accordance with the contract. 

Respectfully yours, 

William J. Lee, 

Chairman. 

The modification of the plan of the remaining local festi¬ 
vals as indicated in the foregoing letter was approved. 

The recommendation that Mr. Hamilton be paid the re¬ 
maining $1,000 on his contract was approved, subject to such 
modification as to the date of payment as might be mutually 
agreed upon. 

Brooklyn Institute Meeting 

Mr. Bridgman, to whom was referred (page 302) the 
letter of Secretary Stutzer of the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, inquiring concerning a joint meeting of 
the Commission and the Institute on October 12 in the 


September 2, 1914 


315 


Brooklyn Academy of Music, contemplated by the late Dr. 
Franklin W. Hooper, Director of the Institute and Chair¬ 
man of the Commission’s Committee on Permanent Memor¬ 
ials, reported that he had had a conference on September 1 
with President Healy and First Vice President Woodward 
of the Institute in which they stated that the Institute was 
seeking now only to perform the definite commitments of 
its late Director and that from their present point of view 
they did not suggest further action in the matter. 


Nominated for Appointment on Commission 

Mr. Ames moved that Mr. Elmer Thompson of No. 253 
West 54th street, Secretary of the Automobile Club of 
America, and Mr. George FI. Duck of No. 22 West 61st 
street, President of the Motor Truck Club, be nominated 
to His Honor the Mayor for appointment on the Com¬ 
mission. 

Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 











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317 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

September 9, 1914 

The twenty-seventh meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William 
street, New York City, on Wednesday, September 9, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Vice President, 
presiding; and Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. 
William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Dr. Edward W. Stitt and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. 
E. A. Norman.) 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. 
Robert Grier Cooke, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Dr. John H. 
Finley, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Dr. Henry F. Osborn, Hon. 
Alton B. Parker, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, 
Hon. William R. Willcox, and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and 
they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
the accountant, Mr. John J. Baird, presented the following 
report: 


Minutes of Trustees 



New York, Sept. 9, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercen¬ 
tenary Commission 

Gentlemen. — On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on September 8, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation, on account 

Subscriptions, direct. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Sept. 1, Sept, i to 

1914 Sept. 8 Total 

$10,000 00 . r ... $10,000 00 

1,850 po .. 1,850 00 

4,415 00 . 4 , 4 i 5 00 

468 10 10 00 478 10 

35 00 12 00 47 00 


$16,768 10 


$22 00 $16,790 10 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Estimates A propria- 

approved lions Classification 


$5,000 

00 

$5,000 

Headquarters. 

$2,098 

93 

$65 0 

62 

$2,749 

55 



5,000 

Athletics. 









500 

Auditing. 







7,500 

00 

10,000 

Commercial exhibits. 

1,225 

75 



1,225 

75 

2,875 

00 

5,875 

Commercial pageants. 

73 

32 

229 

80 

303 

12 



5,000 

Educational institutions. . . 







500 

00 

500 

Flag and poster. 







493 

50 

1,500 

Ways and Means. 

597 46 

74 

40 

671 

86 



1,000 

Historical meetings. 

77 

25 



77 

25 



10,000 

Illuminations. 







$,995 

00 

15,050 

Local festivals. 

4,808 

98 

79 

00 

4-887 

98 

640 

00 

1,000 

Medal and badge. 

526 

25 



526 

25 

478 

00 

478 

Medals purchased. 

406 

50 



406 

50 



5,000 

Memorials. 









5,000 

Museum exhibits. 

8 

50 



8 

50 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

Music festivals. 









1,000 

Panama Canal. 









X , 000 

Peace centennial. 









2,500 

Publicity. 









5,000 

Street parades. 







4,000 

00 

5.000 

Secretary’s salary. 

4,000 

00 



4,000 

00 

5,625 

00 

5,625 

Director of commercial ex- 










hibits, salarv. 

5,000 

00 



5,ooo 

00 



$96,028 


S18,822 

94 

$ 1 ,033 

82 

$19,856 

76 


Excess of dibursements over receipts Sept. 8, 1914. 3,066 66 


LIABILITIES UNPAID 

Ways and Means: 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. $182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses... 10 05 

Headquarters: 

Accountant’s services. 90 co 

Polhemus Printing Co. 36 65 

Sundries. 100 00 

Commercial pageants: 

Commercial Despatch & Delivery Co., printing. 1 75 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements. 19 25 

R. W. Annin, salary. 40 00 

Albert DeCernea, salary. 125 00 

J. A. Kelly, agent, rent ($15 chargeable to publicity). 50 00 

Publicity: 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll. 45 00 

Director 0/ commercial exhibits: 

Salary, August.. 625 00 

Medals purchased from Tiffany & Co. 55 00 













































































September 9, 1914 319 


-Local festivals: 

M. A. Jones and 24 school principals, costumes and fares. 5344 42 

Sundry accounts payable for local festivals, costumes, music, etc. . . . 2,020 11 

W. J. Lee, payroll and services... 238 00 

Sundry accounts payable music, costumes, etc., for Central park 

^pageants . 1,400 14 

TV . F. Hamilton, balance under contract. 1,000 00 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements. 50 00 

Annin & Co., flags, etc. 78 00 


$6,510 77 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


Bills Approved fox* Payment 

1 he following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Medals purchased, Tiffany & Co. $55.00 

Commercial pageants: 

Commercial Despatch Addressing and Delivery Co., printing. 1 75 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements and payroll. 19 25 

R. W. Annin, soliciting, salary. 40 00 

Albert De Cernea, director, salary. 125 00 

J. A. Kelly, agent, rent ($15 chargeable to publicity). 50 00 

Publicity: 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll. 45 00 

Commercial pageants, Polhemus Printing Co. $& 25 

Headquarters, Polhemus Printing Co. 28 40 

- 36 65 

Local festivals: 

W. J. Lee, payroll, etc. 238 00 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements. 50 00 

Annin & Co., flags, etc. 78 00 


$738 65 


Change of De Cei*nea Contract 

Upon recommendation of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, it was voted that the contract with Mr. Albert De 
Cernea be changed so as to provide for a salary of $125 a 
week for twelve weeks, instead of for a salary of $100 and 
an allowance of $25 a week for expenses, the total com¬ 
pensation of $1,500 being the same. (See page 301.) 

Appointed by the Mayor 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter from the 
Mayor’s Secretary, dated September 9, communicating the 
appointment of Mr. Elmer Thompson and Mr. George PI. 
Duck as members of the Commission upon the recommenda¬ 
tion of the Trustees at their last meeting. (See page 315.) 

The Vice President presiding appointed Messrs. Thomp¬ 
son and Duck on the Commercial Pageants Committee. 



























320 


Minutes of Trustees 


Contracts Committee 

Ah*. Bogert, in the absence of Mr. Harrison, Chairman 
of the Contracts Committee, reported that the Committee 
had drafted a contract with the Tidewater Standard Co., 
for the conduct of the Commercial Exhibits, in accordance 
with the action of the Trustees at their last meeting. The 
contract would require the approval of the Chairman of 
the Commercial Exhibits Committee, the Publicity Com¬ 
mittee and the Illuminations Committee to be effective in 
behalf of the Commission. 


Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Committee 
on Commercial Exhibits, also reported on the contract and 
hoped that it would soon be executed. He added that he 
expected the Governor and Mayor to attend the opening of 
the Commercial Exhibits. 

Air. AlacKinnon, Chairman of the Publicity Committee, 
referring to the contract, said he wanted it very clear so 
that its provisions in regard to publications would not con¬ 
flict with rights previously granted to the Wvnkoop-Hallen- 
beck-Crawford Co. 

Law Matters 

The Secretary reported that on September 8 he had been 
served with a summons in a suit brought by Alessrs. Burn- 
stine & Geist, counsellors-at-law, at No. 149 Broadway, in 
behalf of A. A. Aiurphy for $135 for photographs supplied 
to A. H. Stoddard. Referred to the Law Committee. 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter dated Sep¬ 
tember 8, from Mr. A. E. Stilger, President of the Chelsea 
Exchange Bank, stating that the bank had made a loan to 
Air. Stoddard on the assignment of his contract, and re¬ 
questing that a sufficient portion of any moneys due Mr. 
Stoddard be paid to the Bank to cover its claim. Referred 
to the Law Committee. 

The Secretary reported that Mr. Alegaarden, of Judge 
Parker's office, had personally brought Judge Parker’s re¬ 
grets for inability to be present. Mr. Megaarden com- 


321 


September 9, 1914 

municated Judge Parker’s recommendation that provision 
be made for Counsel for the Commission in conformity 
with the requirements of the laws governing the Commis¬ 
sion. 

1 he Secretary stated that it appeared probable from 
information received from the Comptroller and the Deputy 
Attorney-General that this Commission could not employ 
counsel payable out of State funds, and that its suits would 
be handled by the Attorney-General’s office. Upon the ad¬ 
vice of the Deputy Attorney-General in New York he had 
written to the Attorney-General on this matter and was 
awaiting a reply. 

Commercial Pageants 

Mr. Ames reported as follows: 

The Commercial Pageant Committee held two meetings 
last week; one on Wednesday afternoon and the other 
Tuesday noon at the Automobile Club of America. On the 
latter occasion there were also present from the Commission 
Dr. Kunz and Dr. Hall, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter and Mr. Baird. 
There were fifteen representatives of newspapers and 
twenty representatives of Automobile Organizations. The 
newspaper men promised to give the automobile parade 
great publicity and the Automobile Club of America has 
been selected as headquarters of the Automobile Pageant. 
An Automobile Auxiliary Committee was formed with 
Mr. Elmer Thompson, Secretary of the Club, as President. 

The headquarters of the Pageant Committee is at Room 
816, 106 Fulton street, and the letters and literature sent 
out are beginning to awaken interest. 

A letter sent to the New York Times last Friday brought 
reading notice in Sunday’s paper, and to-day the Merchants’ 
Association promised to have in their next issue of their 
publication “ Greater New York,” a write-up urging all 
merchants to take active interest in the Commercial Pageant. 

We have not yet obtained permission from President 
Marks, although two letters were written and several tele¬ 
phone calls made upon his office, to erect banners across 
the various streets. 

Two large banners will be furnished to the Harlem Board 
of Commerce to hang across 125th street; one to the Grand 
Central Palace to put across Lexington avenue; one to the 
Automobile Club of America to put across West 54th street, 
and permits are asked for banners in other localities. 


322 


Minutes of Trustees 


We have applied to Asbury Park for a loan of their 
floats and also to Baltimore. It would be well for the Com¬ 
mittee’s invitations to be ratified by the Commission itself. 

The Committee asks that invitations be sent out through 
headquarters to President Wilson, the Secretary of Com¬ 
merce and the Governors of the various states so that we 
can send word to the newspapers that they have been in¬ 
vited to review the Commercial Pageant. 

The Committee also desires to know if it may secure the 
Indians who will be here at that time, for a section of the 
pageant. 

The Committee also asks that from the Secretary’s office 
shall be sent notices to each member of the Commission 
calling attention to the fact that the celebration is to go on 
and that there will be an automobile pageant on the evening 
of October 28th, and a Commercial Pageant on the evening 
of October 31st, and a Commercial Exhibition at Grand 
Central Palace from November 7th to 21st inclusive. 

We ask that Mr. Herbert F. Gunnison be added to our 
committee and that H. L. Messmore Co., be permitted to 
solicit for entries. 

The report was received and the recommendations 
adopted. 

Mr. Ames and Mr. Lee reported on a conference with 
the automobile interests and the request of the latter that 
the Commission provide about $6,000 for expenses in organ¬ 
izing the automobile parade and $5,000 for prizes. 

After some discussion the request was referred back to 
the Commercial Pageants Committee for consideration and 
report. 

Publicity Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon asked permission to arrange for a 
luncheon for automobile editors, similar to that of the Com¬ 
mercial Pageants Committee. Granted. 


Illuminations 

Mr. Norman exhibited a design for electric lights, inter¬ 
spersed with small flags, for the decoration of Fifth Avenue 
and other streets planned by the Illuminations Committee. 

The design was approved and the Committee requested to 
get estimates for the same. 


September 9, 1914 


323 


Civil Service Exceptions 

The Secretary laid before the Board the following letter, 
for record: 

State of New York 
State Civil Service Commission 
Albany 

September 2, 1914. 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau street, 

New York City. 

Gentlemen. — Your communications of August 6th, 10th 
and 25th, submitting names of a number of temporary 
employees for approval, were considered by the State Civil 
Service Commission at a meeting held August 31st, at which 
time it was 

Resolved: That the following named persons to be em¬ 
ployed by the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission as indicated and pursuant to chapters 313 of the 
laws of 1913 and 530 of the laws of 1914, be and hereby 
are excepted from examination under the provisions of 
civil service rule VIII, subdivision 9, it appearing that they 
are persons engaged in private business, and that the services 
to be rendered are technical and expert, and of an occasional 
and exceptional character; provided, however, that no salary 
hereby authorized shall continue after the 31st day of De¬ 
cember, 1914: 

John J. Baird, Accountant, $15 per day, effective July 20, 

1 9 1 4 ; 

Fritz Guertler, Assistant to Finance & Ways & Means Com¬ 
mittee, $30 per week, effective July 29, 1914 ; 

Marshall B. VanCott, Secretary to Finance & Ways & 
Means Committees, $75 per week, effective July 22, 1914; 
Amy Brody, Stenographer, $15 per week, effective July 27, 
1914; 

Isabel Price, Stenographer, $15 per week, effective July 1, 
1914; 

M. E. Russell, Stenographer, $15 per week, effective July 27, 
1914; 

L. McLaughlin, Stenographer, $17 per week, effective De¬ 
cember 22, 1913; 

Louise Absalom, Stenographer, $15 per week, effective Jan¬ 
uary 3, 1914; 


3 2 4 


Minutes of Trustees 


A. MacKnee, Stenographer, $17.50 per week, effective 
March 7, 1914; 

Edna Schramm, Stenographer, $10 per week, effective De¬ 
cember 12, 1913 and $15 per week, effective January 2, 
I9 J 4; 

Rebecca Goldstein, Stenographer, $10 per week, effective 
November 28, 1913, and $15 per week, effective January 
2, 1914; 

Charles E. Risse, Stenographer, $25 per week, effective 
January 15, 1914; 

Norman N. Blakeley, Telephone Operator, $8 per week, 
effective November 28, 1913; 

P. A. McKean, Stenographer, $18 per week, effective July 
4 , 1914 ; 

Edward A. Kelleher, Clerk, $18 per week, effective July 4, 
1914; 

John Condron, Messenger and Attendant, $18 per week, 
effective July 4, 1914; 

Christopher A. O’Brien, Clerk and Messenger, $10 per week, 
effective August 1, 1914; 

Richard W. Annin, Solicitor for Entries to the Commercial 
Parade, $40 per week, effective August 19, 1914; 

Albert De Cernea, Director of the Automobile and Com¬ 
mercial Pageants, $100 per week, effective August 19, 

19H; 

Miss C. V. Poggi, Stenographer, $15 per week, effective 
August 17, 1914; 

Yours very respectfully, 

John C. Birdseye, 

Secretary. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

. E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 


325 


Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

September 16, 1914 

The twenty-eighth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of the Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday, September 16, 1914, 
at 2 p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Presiding Vice 
President, in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry 
L. Bogert, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Prof. Henry T. 
Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, 
Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. Mac¬ 
Kinnon, Hon. Herman Ridder, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Col. Henry W. Sackett and Dr. Edward W. Stitt. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Mr. John Aspegren, Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Mr. Robert 
Grier Cooke, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. Fin¬ 
ley, Mr. Benedict J. Greenhut, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. 
Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff 
and Mr. Arthur Williams, and they were excused. 

Dr. Kunz reported that Gen. Carroll, though absent, was 
doing effective work for the Celebration. 

, Minutes Approved 

i 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 


326 


Meeting of Trustees 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, Mr. 
John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following report: 

New York, September 16, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the Nezv York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen: On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on September 15, 1914: 


receipts 

To Sept. 8, 


1914 

State appropriation on account. $10,000 00 

Subscriptions direct. 1,850 00 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means. 4,415 00 

Subscriptions for medals. 478 10 

Subscriptions for badges. 47 00 


Sept. 8 to 
Sept. 13 


$6 t'o 


Total 

$10,000 00 
1,850 00 
4,415 00 
478 10 
53 00 


$16,790 10 $6 00 $16,796 10 


DISBURSEMENTS 

Estimates Appropria- 

approved lion Classification 


$5,000 00 

$5,000 

5,000 

Headquarters. 

Athletics. . . 

$ 2,749 55 

$28 40 

$ 2,777 

95 


500 

Auditing. 





7,500 00 

10,000 

Commercial exhibits. 

1,225 75 


1,225 

75 

2,875 00 

5,875 

Commercial pageants. 

303 12 

229 25 

532 

37 


5,000 

Educational institutions. . 





500 00 

500 

Flag and poster ... . ... 





493 50 

1,500 

Ways and Means. 

671 86 


671 

86 


1,000 

Historical meetings 

77 25 


77 

25 


10,000 

Illuminations . 


8,995 OO 

15,050 

Local festivals. 

4,887 98 

738 OO 

5,625 

98 

640 OO 

1,000 

Medal and badge. 

526 25 


526 

25 

478 OO 

478 

Medals and cases purchased. 

406 50 

55 00 

461 

50 


5,000 

Memorials. 






5,000 

Museum exhibits . 

8 50 


8 

50 

5,000 00 

5,000 

Music festivals. 




1,000 

Panama Canal. 






1,000 

Peace Centennial. . 






2,500 

Publicity. 


60 OO 

60 

OO 


5,ooo 

Street parades. 





4,000 OO 

5.000 

Secretary’s salary. 

4,000 00 


4,000 

00 

5,625 OO 

5.625 

Director of commercial ex- 







hibits, salary. 

5,000 00 


5,ooo 

00 


. $96,028 $19,856 76 $1,110 65 $20,967 41 

Excess of disbursements over receipts, Sept. 15, 1914. . . . * *$4,171 31 

LIABILITIES UNPAID 

Ways and Means: 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. $182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses.,. 10 05 

Headquarters: 

Accountant’s services. 180 00 

Sundries. xoo 00 

Commercial Pageants: 

Louis Annin Ames, Chairman, disbursements. 36 35 

Louis Annin Ames, for payroll, 2 weeks. 211 59 

Albert DeCernea, salary as Director, 2 weeks. 250 00 

Brause Desk Co., office furniture. 30 75 

Louis Annin Ames, paid for 43 luncheons for committee guests. 35 65 

E. A. Williams & Son, waste paper baskets, etc. 6 75 

Annin & Co., banners, stationery, etc. 40 20 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery, etc. 4 35 

Oliver Typewriter Co., rental. 12 00 

Landsberg Bros., office supplies. 7 04 


* This excess is apparent and not real, as checks for more than that amount which 
have been charged on the books have not been delivered. 















































































































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Publicity: 

Blumenstock & Co., lettering door. $7 50 

A. E. MacKinnon, for pa.yroll. 40 00 

Director of Commercial Exhibits, salary, August. 625 00 

Local Festivals: 

William J. Lee, postage, carfares and auto hire. 82 55 

William J. Lee, payroll. 48 00 

M. A. Jones and 24 school principals, costumes, fares, etc. 344 42 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements, costumes, fares, etc. 50 00 

Sundry accounts payable for local festivals, costumes, music, etc. . . 2,098 xi 

W. F. Hamilton, balance under contract. 500 00 

Sundry accounts payable — music, costumes, etc., for Central Park 

pageants. 1,400 14 


$6,302 85 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 

T he report was received and ordered on file. 

t 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee :* 


Commercial Pageants: 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll, 2 weeks ending Sept. 19. $211 59 

Albert De Cernea, Director’s salary, 2 weeks ending Sept. 19. 250 00 

Brause Desk Co., office furniture. 30 75 

Louis Annin Ames, luncheons for 43 guests. 35 65 

Louis Annin Ames, telephone, postage, etc. 36 35 

Publicity: 

Blumenstock & Co., lettering door. 7 50 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll. 40 00 

Local Festivals: 

William J. Lee, payroll. 48 00 

William J. Lee, postage, carfares, auto truck hire... 82 55 

Annin & Co., banners, etc. 78 00 

R. L. Polk & Co., list of societies. 18 50 

Louis H. Chalif, music. 1 77 

Victor Liekens, printing. 21 00 

Milton Bradley Co., materials for costumes. 12 25 

James Brown, automobile hire. 49 50 

Royal Typewriter Co., rent of typewriter. 5 50 

Dennison Mfg. Co., tissue paper. 25 47 

B. G. Hughes & Bro., hat boxes. 8 40 

I. Goldberg, material for costumes. 6 00 

Annin & Co., banners and flags. 138 50 

The John J. O’Brien Printing Co., printing programs, etc. 68 25 

Charles Broadway Rouss, materials for costumes, etc. 22 07 

J. A. Hearn & Sons, materials for costumes, etc. 9 92 

A. J. Stanton, properties for pageants. 6 10 

The Grand 5 & 10 & 25 Cent Stores, properties for pageants. 12 00 

Henry Romeike, Inc., press clippings. 5 00 

American Press Assn., photos. 1 50 

American Photo Co., photos. 28 50 

International News Service, photos. 3 00 

Marceau, photos. 5 00 

Multi Typewritten Letter Co., multigraphing. 2 50 

The World Florist, properties for pageant. x 50 

Thomas F. Usher, music._. 2S7 00 

Scully & Son, transportation of canoes. .. 12 00 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck : Crawford Co., printing. 192 00 

Fred Meyer, motion picture films. 153 36 

The Vogelin Costume Co., hire of costumes. 221 00 


$2,137 98 


* St« also payments authorized in subsequent proceedings. 























































328 


Meeting of Trustees 


Unpaid. Stoddard Bills 

The Secretary reported that with Mr. E. P. V. Ritter r 
Chairman of the Commercial Exhibits Committee and Ways 
and Means Committee, and with Mr. MacKinnon, Chair¬ 
man of the Publicity Committee, he had gone over the 
twenty-one unpaid bills contracted by A. H. Stoddard and 
referred to in the minutes of September 2, and as the result 
of their joint judgment recommended the disallowance of 
some and the payment of others. 

Referred to the Law Committee with power. 

Approval of Estimates 

The following estimate submitted by the Commercial 
Pageants Committee and being within its apportionment was 
approved. 


Office rent for two months.... $200 00 

Office furniture and typwriters for two months. 100 00 

Telephone installation and messenger. xoo oo- 

Five stenographers at $15 per week for 8 weeks. 600 00 

Printing, stationery and postage. 500 00 

Street banners. 1,000 00 

Additional solicitors. 300 00 


S3,ooo 00 


The following additional estimate submitted by the Local 
Festivals Committee and being within its total appropria¬ 
tion, was approved. 


Administration: Clerks, stenographers, incidentals, etc. $155 00 

Costumes, music, printing, motion picture film, incidentals, etc. 87s 00 

For the purpose of developing the pageant of Harlem to be held October 31 1,000 00 


$2,030 00 


Following is a recapitulation of the appropriations and 
estimates for the Local Festivals Committee: 

Total appropriation. $15,050 00- 

Estimates previously approved. $8,995 00 

Estimate above approved. 2,030 00 

- 11,025 00 

Estimates inside of appropriation. $4,025 00 


Law Matters 

The Secretary, referring to his inquiry of the Attorney 
General as to the employment of counsel by the Commission, 

























September 16, 1914 329 

payable out of the State Funds, laid before the Board the 
following letter: 

State of New York, 

Office of the Attorney General, 

Albany, September 9, 1914. 

Mr. E. H. Hall, Secretary, Nezv York Commercial Tercen¬ 
tenary Commission, 154 Nassau Street, New York City: 

Dear Sir.— I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 
September 8. 

This Department has uniformly ruled that unless special 
statutory authorization is given, a State department or com¬ 
mission is without power to employ counsel. The duty of 
representing your Commission in the courts therefore falls 
upon the Attorney General and I shall be glad to do any¬ 
thing in my power to protect the interests of your Commis¬ 
sion, if all papers which have been served upon you in the 
actions mentioned are forwarded to this office. Any time 
you desire the opinion of this Department upon a matter of 
law, I shall be glad to give it immediate attention, upon a 
submission of the question in writing. There is nothing in 
the appropriation for your Commission which provides for 
the employment of counsel. 

Yours very truly, 

James A. Parsons, 

A ttorney-General. 

Pursuant to the foregoing, Judge Parker, Chairman of 
the Law Committee, had transmitted to the Attorney Gen¬ 
eral the papers in the suits of A. H. Stoddard, J. H. Wells 
and five others, and A. A. Murphy; and to these the Sec¬ 
retary had added papers in a suit by A. Sestac, artist, for 
$1,225.00, served on the Secretary September 15, by Mr. 
John C. Oldmixon, lawyer, of No. 35 Nassau Street. Fol¬ 
lowing is a recapitulation of the suits and claims, most of 
which the Secretary said he believed to be without 
foundation: 

The following are suits in the hands of the Attorney 
General: 


A. H. Stoddard. $1.5.60203 

J. H. Wells and five others. 18,000 00 

A. A. Murphy. I 3 S 00 

Albert Sestac. 1.225 00 


$34,062 03 









330 


Meeting of Trustees 


The following are undetermined claims now in the hands 
of the Law Committee: 


Risse et al. 518,074 or 

Whitney and Roberts. 3. it>6 64 

Korbel and Colwell. 1.894 72 

Twenty-one unpaid bills contracted by Stoddard. 2,387 36 


525,522 73 

The Secretary said that during the past week the Presi¬ 
dent had received a letter from Messrs. Stetson, Jennings 
& Russell, stating that a client held an unpaid bill against 
the Commission amounting to $1500 for rent of Fort George 
property for construction of floats. The Secretary had 
written to Messrs. Stetson, Jennings & Russell that the 
rental of the property had not been authorized by the 
Commission. 

Final Payment to W. F. Hamilton 

On motion of Mr. Lee, Chairman of the Committee on 
Local Festivals, it was voted that the final instalment of 
$500 be paid to Mr. William F. Hamilton on his contract 
for the production of pageants under the direction of that 
Committee. Mr. Lee stated that Mr. Hamilton had ful¬ 
filled his part of the contract and had placed the floats, 
which were his property, at the disposal of the Committee 
for future use. 


Insurance of Hamilton Floats 

On motion of Dr. Stitt, it was voted that this Commission 
insure the Hamilton floats, above referred to, for $5,000, 
payable to the Commission as its interest may appear. 

Appointed by the Mayor 

The Secretary reported that under date of September 14, 
His Honor the Mayor had appointed Mr. Francis Wright 
Clinton and Mr. Hugh Gordon Miller members of the 
Commission upon recommendation of this Board. (See 
page 302.) 

Death of Mr. James E. Sullivan 

Mr. Ames announced with great sorrow the death, on 
the day of the meeting, of Mr. James E. Sullivan, Chairman 










1614 NEW YORK 1914 


OFFICIAL POSTER 
Designed by Frederick S. Lamb. 





































33 i 


September 16, 1914 


of the Committee on Athletics, whereupon Dr. Stitt offered 
the following resolution: 

Whereas, the trustees of the Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission have heard of the sudden death of our 
esteemed associate, Hon. James E. Sullivan, and 

Whereas, Mr. Sullivan was one of our most representa¬ 
tive citizens and was highly distinguished for his pre¬ 
eminent service in the cause of public education, clean 
athletics, and civic welfare, we, his fellow-Trustees, adopt 
this minute expressive of our profound grief at the loss 
which our city has sustained, and extend to the members 
of his bereaved family our most sincere sympathy. There¬ 
fore 

Be it Resolved that this resolution be spread in full upon 
our minutes, and a properly signed copy be sent to Mrs. 
James E. Sullivan, in token of our heart-felt condolence. 

The resolution was adopted by a rising vote. 


Official Poster Design Approved 

Mr. Ames, as Chairman of the Committee on Official 
Flag and Poster, submitted a photograph of the poster 
design made by Mr. Frederick S. Lamb, artist, and it was 
approved. (See page 306.) 

The question of the reproduction of the poster was left 
to the Flag and Poster Committee. 

Commercial Pageants 

Mr. Ames, as Chairman of the Commercial Pageants 
Committee, read a report recapitulating the labors of the 
Commission since it was appointed four weeks ago. The 
members had undertaken the work as a labor of love, asking 
no recompense except the consciousness of discharging a 
patriotic duty which would redound to the credit of the 
Commission and add to the prosperity and renown of the 
City. They had met in season and out of season, and many 
of the committeemen had given up every bit of leisure time, 
forsaken vacations and needed rest, and encroached on 
business. The question now was, what kind of a celebra¬ 
tion should be had, a small one, or “ the greatest commercial, 
educational, historical, industrial and patriotic pageant 


33 2 


Meeting of Trustees 


America has ever seen, and also the greatest automobile 
parade the world has ever seen, which also will embody 
patriotic, educational and historical features, and will take 
the form of fancy, floral, grotesque, electrical and military 
displays." The Committee had secured from the City per¬ 
mission to stretch announcement banners across the streets. 
Mr. Ames dwelt on the development of the automobile and 
commercial pageants. The latter would portray peace, com¬ 
merce, industry, finance and education. The entries were 
many, but the possibilities were greater than they had 
dreamed of. At the request of the Committee, 1 eleven 
Mardi Gras floats from Coney Island were expected. The 
largest seamless flag in the world, 90 by 150 feet in size, 
displayed at the recent Baltimore Star Spangled Banner 
celebration, could be had for the parade ; and the 24 floats 
of the Baltimore celebration could be had for a few thou¬ 
sand dollars. 

Mr. Elmer Thompson and Mr. George H. Duck, mem¬ 
bers of the Commercial Pageants Committee, spoke on the 
automobile features. 

It was voted that the offer of Messrs. Hochschild, Kohn 
& Co., owners of the large flag above referred to, to display 
it in the pageant, be accepted, their courtesy to be suitably 
acknowledged. 


Apportionment of Funds Clianged 

After a very full discussion of the plans of the Com¬ 
mercial Pageants Committee and as a preliminary to later 
action it was voted that the following apportionments or 
parts of apportionments heretofore made be rescinded: 


Athletics Committee. $5,000 00 

Local Festivals Committee. 4,000 00 

Historical Meetings Committee... 1,000 00 

Secretary’s Salary. 1,000 00 


It was then voted that $5,000 be added to the apportion¬ 
ment for the Commercial Pageants Committee for the 
expenses of the automobile parade, to be disbursed upon 





September 16, 1914 333 

estimates and vouchers complying with all the regular re¬ 
quirements of the Commission. 

It was also voted that $4,000 be apportioned and set aside 
as a fund to guarantee the cost of prizes to be given for the 
automobile parade, it being the expectation, however, that 
most if not all of the prizes will be secured without expense 
to the Commission. 

Purchase of Baltimore Floats Approved Conditionally 

Mr. Ames and Mr. Lee explained that Mr. Van Horne, 
owner of the 24 floats used last week in the Star Spangled 
Banner pageant in Baltimore, was present and offered to 
sell them to the Commission for $2,000; and for two or 
three thousand dollars more, they could be brought to New 
York and refurbished, and manned and costumed and used 
in our parade, thus practically duplicating a pageant that 
cost Baltimore about $70,000. Mr. Lee had seen the floats 
and said they were very beautiful and instructive. He said 
that free storage could be secured for them at the Mott 
Iron Works in this City. 

Prof. Fleck, Dr. Stitt, Dr. Kunz and others favored the 
acquisition of the floats if the Commission could readjust 
its appropriations to that end, and that appeared also to be 
the unanimous opinion of those present. 

The matter was finally referred to the Chairman of the 
Commercial Pageants Committee and the Secretary with 
power. 

Commercial Exhibits Committee — Payment Authorized 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial 
Exhibits Committee, read the following report: 

New York City, September 16, 1914. 

To the Board of Trustees of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission: 

Gentlemen. — The contract prepared by your Contract 
Committee and approved by the Legal Committee, between 
the Tidewater Standard Company and the Commission has 
been signed by Mr. A. Milton Napier, President of the 


334 


Meeting of Trustees 


Tidewater Standard Co., and by the Chairmen of the Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits, Illuminations and Publicity Committees 
and is now in force. The Tidewater Standard Company 
has employed Messrs. Roberts & Whitney to aid them in 
securing contracts and also has about sixteen solicitors at 
work. 

In order that the above-mentioned solicitors may have 
authority they have requested me to sign the enclosed 
letter. Before delivering this letter, however, I am having 
the solicitors attach their signatures to a waiver as per copy 
hereunto attached. 

We are asking your approval today for the following: 

(1) That all remittances for space in the Commercial 
Exhibition be deposited in a separate bank account to the 
credit of the Commercial Exhibits Committee and the Tide¬ 
water Standard Co., all checks to be drawn only on the 
joint signatures of Mr. A. Milton Napier, President of the 
Tidewater Standard Co., and Mr. John J. Baird, Account¬ 
ant of the Commission. This is necessary in order to facili¬ 
tate the payment of commissions to solicitors. 

(2) That the contract for the Grand Central Palace be 
authorized and that the $5,000 rent payment be made. 

(3) That the Publicity Committee be directed to secure 
the necessary publicity. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. P. V. Ritter, 

Chairman , Commercial Exhibits Committee. 

The form of letter referred to in the foregoing report is 
as follows: 


480 Lexington Avenue, September 15, 1914. 
To whom it may concern: 

The bearer, Mr. J. A. McGuckin, is authorized to solicit 
contracts for space in the New York Commercial Tercen¬ 
tenary Exhibition and “ Old New York,” to be held in the 
Grand Central Palace, November 7th to November 21st, 
inclusive, 1914. 

E. P. V. Ritter, 

Chairman, Commercial Exhibits Committee. 

The form of waiver referred to on the foregoing report 
is as follows: 


September 16, 1914 


335 


New York City, September 16, 1914. 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, New 
York City: 

Gentlemen.— In consideration of one dollar ($1.00) to 
each of us in hand paid by the New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission through its Commercial Exhibits 
Committee the receipt of which is hereby severally acknowl¬ 
edged and in further consideration of the Commercial Ex¬ 
hibits Committee of the New York Commercial Tercenten¬ 
ary Commission giving us a letter of introduction authorizing 
us to solicit contracts for the sale of space in the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Exhibition and “ Old New York,” 
to be held November 7th to November 21st, inclusive, 1914, 
in the Grand Central Palace, New York City, we, the under¬ 
signed, agree that the said Commission, its Board of 
Trustees, any of its committees, or any member of any 
committee of said Commission or the Tidewater Standard 
Company or Messrs. Roberts & Whitney shall not be obli¬ 
gated to us, excepting to the extent of a commission equal 
to twenty per cent (20%) of the gross amount of any 
signed contracts approved by said Commercial Exhibits 
Committee that we may secure and upon which twenty-five 
per cent (25%) payment has been made to the said Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits Committee by the Lessee in said contracts, 
and we further agree that we will not incur any other ex¬ 
pense or indebtedness of any kind that will in any way 
involve the said Commission, its Commercial Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee, any of its committees, any member of any committee 
or of said Commission, Messrs. Roberts & Whitney or the 
Tidewater Standard Company. 

After some discussion of the report, it was amended so 
as to substitute the name of Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman 
of the Commercial Exhibits Committee, for that of Mr. 
John J. Baird, in the first recommendation, with the under¬ 
standing, however, that Mr. Baird, as the Commission’s 
Accountant, was to have supervision of the accounts; and 
as amended the report was approved and its recommenda¬ 
tions adopted. This includes the aproval of the payment of 
$5000 for rental of space at the Grand Central Palace. 

Museum Exhibits Committee to Proceed 

After a brief statement by Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the 


336 Meeting of Trustees, Sept. 16, 1914 


Museum Exhibits Committee, it was voted, on motion of 
Mr. Ames, that that Committee be authorized to proceed 
with the arrangements for museum exhibits, the prepara¬ 
tions of the book of the museums and its distribution, all 
to be within the apportionment of $5,000 heretofore made 
for that Committee. 


Change of Place of Next Meeting 

Mr. MacKinnon stated that the Automobile Club of 
America had offered the use of the ample accommodations 
of its Club House at No. 247 West 54th Street for the 
meetings of the Trustees, and moved that the next meeting 
be held at that place on Tuesday evening, September 22, 
at 8 o’clock. Carried. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 




























































































































































































337 


Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

September 22, 1914 

The twenty-ninth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held, pur¬ 
suant to adjournment, in the building of the Automobile 
Club of America, at No. 247 West 54th street, New York 
City, on Tuesday evening, September 22, 1914, at 8 o’clock. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Vice President pre¬ 
siding, in the chair; and Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Her¬ 
bert L. Bridgman, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Hon. Robert L. 
Harrison, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. 
A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Ed¬ 
ward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Dr. Edward W. 
Stitt, and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Mr. John Aspegren, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Hon. 
Jacob A. Cantor, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Mr. Clarkson 
Cowl, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Com. Fred B. Dalzell, Hon. 
Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. B. J. Green- 
hut, Mr. E. H. Hall, Hon. William B. Howland, Mr. Hans 
Lagerlof, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Col. 
Henry W. Sackett and Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 


338 


Minutes of Trustees 


Treasurer’s Report. 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
Mr. John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following 
report: 

New York, Sept. 22, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen :— On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on September 22, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation on account. 

Subscriptions, direct. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


116,796 10 $15,012 00 $31,808 10 


To Sept. 15, Sept. 15 to 


IQ14 Sept. 22 Total 

$10,000 00 $15,000 00 $25,000 00 

1,850 00 1,850 00 

4 , 4 i 5 00 4 , 4 i 5 00 

478 10 10 00 488 10 

53 00 2 00 55 00 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Estimates Appropria- 

approved tion Classification 

$5,000 00 $5,000 Headquarters.*$2,855 20 

. 500 Auditing.. .. 

7,500 00 xo,ooo Commercial exhibits. 1,225 75 

5,875 00 5,875 Commercial pageants. 532 37 


9,000 Commercial pageants—auto¬ 
mobile parade. 

5,000 Educational institutions. . . . 


500 00 500 Flag and poster. 

643 50 1,500 Ways and Means. 671 86 

. 10,000 Illuminations. 

11,025 00 11,050 Local festivals. 5,625 98 

640 00 x,ooo Medals and badges. "... 526 25 

488 00 488 Medals purchased. 461 50 

. 5,000 Memorials. 

. 5,000 Museum exhibits. 8 50 

5,000 00 5,000 Music festivals. 

. 1,000 Panama Canal. 

. 1,000 Peace centennial. 

. 2,500 Publicity. 60 00 

. 5,000 Street parades. 

4,000 00 4,000 Secretary’s salary. 4,000 00 

5,625 00 5,625 Director of commercial ex¬ 
hibits salary. 5,000 00 


$2,855 20 


. 1,225 75 

$528 69 1,061 06 


671 86 


2,632 46 8,258 44 

. 526 25 

. 461 50 


8 50 


47 50 107 50 

. 4,000 00 

. 5,000 00 


$94,038 


$20,967 41 $3,208 65 
Balance in bank Sept. 22, 1914. 


$24,176 06 
7,632 04 


* Includes $77.25 formerly charged to historical meetings. 


FUNDS AT SEPTEMBER 22, 1914 


State appropriation, balance. $75,000 00 

In bank . 7,632 04 


$82,632 04 






































































































Reverse 

Official Badge 

The Official Badge, above represented, is for the exclusive use of 
members of the Commission. It may be ordered through the Secre¬ 
tary of the Commission. The price for badge with silver bar and 
medallion is $3, and with bronze bar and medallion $2. The medal¬ 
lion is a reduction of the Official Medal. Trustees may have the word 
“Trustee” instead of “Commissioner” on the bar if they wish. The 
badge is made by Tiffany & Co. (See pages 239 and 253.) 
















September 22, 1914 339 

LIABILITIES AT SEPTEMBER 22, 1914 
Ways and Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. $182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. 10 05 

Headquarters 

Sundries . 150 00 

Accountant’s services. 270 00 

The Argus Co., printing. 74 29 

Director of Commercial Exhibits 

Salary, August . 625 00 

Local Festivals 

W. J. Lee, payroll. 54 00 

M. A. Jones and 24 school principals, costumes, 

fares, etc. 344 42 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements, costumes, fares, 

etc. 50 00 

Sundry accounts payable — music, costumes, etc., 


Commercial Pageants 

W. J. Lee, traveling expenses, Baltimore. 30 50 

Albert DeCernea, director, salary and expenses.. 12960 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll. 175 63 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements, postage, etc.... 69 85 

Louis Annin Ames, luncheon Auto Club of America. 35 65 

G. A. Williams & Son, office supplies. 8 35 

Annin & Co., banners, stationery, etc. 40 25 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery, etc. 5 05 

Oliver Typewriter Co., rental. 12 00 

Landsberg Bros., office supplies. 9 99 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rental.... 7 00 

J. H. Tinsley & Sons, printing. 8 00 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll for solicitors. 273 83 

Publicity Committee 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll, clerk. 15 00 

Multigraphing, Letters Co. 10 25 

Automobile Club of America, luncheon. 17 00 


$ 3>925 7 ° 

Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 

Received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following Tills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 




























340 


Minutes of Trustees 


Commercial Pageants 

W. J. Lee, traveling expenses to Baltimore. $30 50 

Albert DeCernea, salary and expenses. 129 60 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll. 94 00 

Louis Annin Ames, solicitors’ payroll. 349 12 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements. 66 85 

Louis Annin Ames, luncheons to Press, September 4. 35 65 

Publicity 

Automobile Club, luncheon to editors, September 15. 17 00 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll, clerk. 150° 

Local Festivals 

W. J. Lee, payroll. 54 00 


$791 72 


Pageants Committee Estimate Approved 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, submitted the following estimate of expenses of the 
automobile auxiliary committee: 

Secretary of Auto Auxiliary Committee, Mr. Downs, 


at $75 per week — 8 weeks. $600 00 

Assistant to Secretary, at $25 per week—8 weeks. 200 00 

Five solicitors, at $40 per week — 7 weeks. 1,400 00 

Three stenographers, at $18 per week — 7 weeks. 378 00 

Two messengers, at $6 per week — 7 weeks. 84 00 

Three typewriters, 2 months, at $10.50. 21 00 

Office furniture, cartage only. 25 00 

Postage . 250 00 

Incidental . 250 00 

Traveling expenses . 500 00 

Stationery . 150 00 

Prizes . 1,000 00 


Total . $4,858 00 


The estimate was approved. 


Illuminations Contract Authorized 

Mr. Norman, in behalf of Mr. Williams, Chairman of the 
Illuminations Committee, submitted estimates from the 
Tucker Electrical Co., and Edward B. Stott & Co., giving 
unit cost for electrical installation for street illuminations. 

On motion of Prof. Fleck, the Committee was authorized 
to execute the necessary contracts and commence the work. 




























September 22, 1914 


34 i 


Notice of Amendment to By-Laws 

Prof. Fleck gave notice that at the next meeting of the 
Trustees he would move to amend section 2 of article I of 
the By-laws so that the regular monthly meeting of the 
Trustees shall be held on the fourth Tuesday instead of 
the fourth Wednesday of the month. 

Contracts Committee 

Mr. Harrison, Chairman of the Contracts Committee, re¬ 
ported that the lease of the Grand Central Palace for the 
Commercial Exhibits had been revised so as to make the 
Tidewater Standard Co. the first named tenant and this 
Commission as participating with a limited liability; thus 
more nearly following out the terms of the contract with the 
Tidewater Standard Co. 

On motion of Mr. Harrison it was voted that such 
changes be made in contracts as were necessary to comply 
with the requirements of the Attorney-General’s office. 


Proposed City Appropriation 

Mr. Ames reported that earlier in the day he had called 
at the rooms of the Board of Aldermen in the City Hall, and 
that a resolution had been introduced by President McAneny 
appropriating $25,000 for the celebration and been referred 
to the Finance Committee that day. The resolution requires 
to be passed at a subsequent meeting of the Aldermen and 
the concurrence of the Board of Estimate and Apportion¬ 
ment. 

Law Matters 

A memorandum from the Secretary was read, stating that 
all claims actually in suit are in the hands of the Attorney- 
General and being attended to. The claims for 24 unpaid 
bills contracted by A. H. Stoddard had been referred to 
the Attorney-General for advice. The other claims hereto¬ 
fore reported remain with the Law Committee. There had 
been no new claims during the past week. 


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Provisional Apportionment for Indian Exhibit 

The courtesy of the floor was extended to Dr. Joseph K. 
Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker expeditions 
among the Indians, who outlined a plan for an Indian ex¬ 
hibition at the Grand Central Palace in connection with the 
Commercial Exhibits. 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that $2500 be set aside from the 
municipal funds, when available, for such an exhibition and 
transporting the Indians from their reservations. Carried. 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter stated that he would be in 
Washington on Wednesday and he was requested to present 
to Senator O’Gorman a resolution, (which was adopted by 
the Trustees), requesting the cooperation of the Depart¬ 
ment of the Interior in permitting the Indians to leave their 
reservations for this Celebration. 

Reviewing Stand and Court of Honor 

Mr. Lee and Mr. Ames reported that a lot of fixtures 
suitable for an illuminated Court of Honor and reviewing 
stand could be purchased from the Star Spangled Banner 
Centennial Committee of Baltimore at a very reasonable 
price. The question of erecting a reviewing stand was dis¬ 
cussed at some length and finally referred to Chairman 
Ames. 

Sale of Souvenirs, etc. 

A communication from the Tidewater Standard Co., ask¬ 
ing permission to sell medals, badges, souvenirs, etc., was 
referred to the Committee on Badges. 


Appropriation for Posters 

It was voted that $1000 be appropriated to the Committee 
on Flag and Poster for the purpose of getting out official 
posters and hangers. 


Proposed Rescinding of Appropriation 

Dr. Stitt, a member of the Committee on Educational 
Institutions, moved that it was the sense of the meeting that 
in view of the exigencies of the Commission, it would be 


September 22, 1914 


343 


advisable to divert the apportionment of $5000 made for 
the Educational Institutions Committee for other uses, with 
the understanding that if later plans justify it, an effort will 
be made to secure money for that Committee from some 
other appropriation. Carried. 

The foregoing action was understood to be, not a rescind¬ 
ing of the appropriation, but an expression of opinion as 
to its desirability under the present circumstances. 


Commercial Pageants Committee 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, reported on the work of that Committee. He told 
of the progress in the negotiations for the Star Spangled 
Banner floats from Baltimore, the prospects of securing 
floats representing the business interests of New York and 
other cities, and the progress in securing entries for the 
automobile parade. The Automobile Auxiliary Committee 
of the Commercial Pageants Committee was working in¬ 
dustriously and rendering efficient cooperation. The pros¬ 
pects for the pageants on the evenings of October 28 and 
31 were such as to assure their great success. 


Mr. Ames Elected Vice President 

On motion of Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Mr. Ames was elected 
to fill the vacancy among the Vice Presidents of the Com¬ 
mission. 

Committee Changes 

On motion of Mr. MacKinnon, Messrs. Ames and Lee 
were added to the Commercial Exhibits Committee. 

Memorials to Dr. Hooper 

Mr. Bridgman presented Bulletins of the Brooklyn In¬ 
stitute of Arts and Sciences, (Vol. XIII Nos. 1 and 2) con¬ 
taining resolutions of the Trustees of the Institute, upon the 
character and service to it of its late Director, Dr. Franklin 
W. Hooper, chairman of the Commission’s Committee on 
Permanent Memorials, tributes by Presidents Healy of the 
Trustees and Albertson of the Council of the Institute, and 


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others, portraits of Prof. Hooper and pictures of the home 
'of his birth and death, school and academy at Walpole, 
N. H., which, with later similar issues, were ordered filed 
with the records of the Commission. 

Medals for Pageant Prizes 

ft was voted that 25 silver and 25 bronze medals be struck 
from the dies of the Official Medal of the Commission to 
be awarded as prizes for the best floats appearing in the 
Commercial Pageant, the same to be paid for out of the 
subscription fund. 

Publicity Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon, Chairman of the Publicity Committee, 
reported that the Committee had been very successful since 
the last meeting and a large amount of the material supplied 
to the newspapers had been used and was on file in the 
clipping scrap-book. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

A. E. MacKinnon, 

Assistant Secretary. 


345 


Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

September 29, 1914 

The thirtieth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
building of the Automobile Club of America, at No. 247 
West 54th street, New York City, on Tuesday evening, 
September 29, 1914, at 7.30 o’clock. 

The meeting was held in the midst of a general meeting 
of the Commission called for 8.15 o’clock. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Vice President, 
presiding; and Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Robert Grier 
Cooke, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Com. Fred B. Dalzell, Mr. 
Hans Lagerlof, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. A. E. Mac¬ 
Kinnon, Mr. Wm. C. Muschenheim, Mr. Edward P. V. 
Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, and 
Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman.) 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Mr. John Aspegren, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Hon. 
Thomas W. Churchill, Mr. Union N. Bethell, Hon. Jacob 
A. Cantor, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Henry Russell 
Drowne, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 
Hon. Robert L. Harrison, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Hon. N. 
Taylor Phillips, Hon. Herman Ridder, Col. Henry W. 
Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Dr. 
Theodore N. Vail, Hon. Daniel W. Wilber and Hon. Wil¬ 
liam R. Willcox and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 


346 


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Treasurer’s Report. 

On behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, Mr. 
John J. Baird, accountant, submitted the following report: 


New York, Sept. 29, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen: —’On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on September 29, 1914: 

RECEIPTS 


State appropriation on account. 

Subscriptions, direct. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Sept. 22 Sept. 22 to 


1914 Sept. 29 Total 

$25,000 00 $25,000 00 

1,850 00 1.850 00 

4.415 00 4.415 00 

488 xo . 488 10 

55 00 55 00 


$31,808 10 . $31,808 10 


Estimates A ppropria- 


approved 

Hons 

c n 

O 

O 

O 

00 

$5,000 



500 

7,500 

00 

10,000 

5,875 

00 

5,875 

4,858 

00 

9,000 



5,000 

500 

00 

1,500 

643 

50 

1,500 

9,500 

00 

10,000 

11,025 

00 

11,050 

640 

00 

1,000 

488 

00 

488 



5,000 



5,000 

5,000 

00 

5,000 



1,000 



1,000 



2,500 



5,000 

4,000 

00 

4,000 

5,625 

00 

5,625 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Classification 


Headquarters. 

Auditing.. .. 

Commercial exhibits. 

Commercial pageants. 

Commercial pageants—auto¬ 
mobile parade... .. 

Educational institutions. . . . 

Flag and poster. 

Ways and Means. 

Illuminations. 

Local festivals. 

Medals and badges. 

Medals purchased. 

Memorials. 

Museum exhibits. 

Music festivals. 

Panama Canal. 

Peace centennial. 

Publicity. 

Street parades. 

Secretary’s salary. 

Director of commercial ex¬ 
hibits, salary. 


$2,855 20 . $2,855 20 

1,225 75 . 1,225 75 

1,061 06 $705 72 1,766 78 


671 86 671 86 

8,258 44 54 00 8,312 44 

526 25 526 25 

461 50 461 50 

8 50 8 50 


107 50 32 00 139 50 

4,000 00 . 4,000 00 

5,000 00 625 00 5,625 00 


$95,038 


$24,176 06 $1,416 72 $25,592 78 
Balance in bank Sept. 29, 1914. 6,215 32 


$75,000 00 
6,215 32 


$81,215 32 


State appropriation 
In bank. 


FUNDS AT SEPT. 29, 1914 




































































































September 29, 1914 347 

LIABILITIES AT SEPTEMBER 29, 1914 
Ways and Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. $182 40 

F. S. Bishop. 10 05 

Headquarters 

Accountant’s services . 360 00 

The Argus Co., printing. 74 29 

Sundries . 175 00 

Local Festivals 

M. A. Jones and 24 school principals, costumes, 

fares, etc. 344 42 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements, costumes, fares, 

etc. 50 00 

Sundry accounts payable, music, costumes, etc., for 

Central Park pageant. 1,317 59 

W. J. Lee, payroll. 51 00 

Commercial Pageants 

Albert DeCernea, salary and disbursements. 127 25 

Louis Annin Ames, office payroll, week ending Sep¬ 
tember 26 . 81 33 

Louis Annin Ames, office payroll, overtime, week 

ending September 26. 71 16 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll, solicitors’ commission, 

week ending September 26. 189 00 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll, week ending Oct. 3 : 

For office . $198 00 

For solicitors . 265 00 

- 463 00 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements for postage, etc. 271 20 

G. A. Williams & Son, office supplies. 6 15 

Annin & Co., banner, stationery, etc. 531 60 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery, etc. 18 35 

Oliver Typewriter Co., rental. 12 00 

Landsberg Bros., office supplies . 16 79 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rental. 24 25 

J. H. Tinsley & Sons, printing. 8 00 

Brause Desk Co., office furniture. 16 75 

Knickerbocker Desk Co. 16 50 

Commercial Pageants — Automobile Committee 

Payroll week ending September 23, 1914. 36o 00 

Payroll week ending September 30, 1914. 360 00 

Publicity 

Automobile Parade Committee payroll: 

Week ending September 23, 1914. 150 00 

Week ending September 30, 1914. 150 00 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll, $33, postage, $20.25- 53 25 

Letters Co., multigraphing. 10 25 

Commercial Exhibits 

For expenses under contract with Tide Water 

Standard Company . 7 >5<x> 00 


$13,001 58 

Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 




































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Minutes of Trustees 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Local Festivals 

W. J. Lee, payroll, week ending September 26.... $51 00 

Commercial Pageants 

Albert DeCernea, director’s salary and disburse¬ 
ments . 125 75 

Louis Annin Ames, office payroll, overtime, etc., 

September 26 . 71 76 

Louis, Annin Ames, office payroll, week ending 

September 26 . 51 33 

Louis Annin Ames, solicitors’ commission, week 

ending September 26. 189 00 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll, week ending October 3, 

solicitors and office. 457 84 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements, postage, etc.... 271 20 


Publicity 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll, $33, postage, $2025.... 53 25 

Automobile Committee payroll, Septem¬ 
ber 23 . $150 00 

Automobile Committee payroll, Septem¬ 
ber 30 . 150 00 

- 300 00 

Commercial Exhibits 

Merchants & Manufacturers’ Exchange, first pay¬ 
ment under lease of space, Grand Central Palace, 
from November 4 to November 24, $5,000, one- 
half payable under terms of contract between 
Commission and Tide Water Standard Co. 2,500 00 

Commercial Exhibits, Automobile Parade Committee 

Payroll week ending September 23, 1914. $360 00 

Payroll week ending September 30, 1914. 360 00 

- 720 00 


$4791 13 

Death of Mr. Neville 

The Vice President presiding announced that he had just 
learned with great sorrow of the death, last February, of 
Mr. George W. Neville, a member of the Commission. Mr. 
Neville was one of the original appointees of Mayor Gaynor 
on the Citizens Committee which preceded the incorporation 
of the Commission, at which time he was president of the 
New York Cotton Exchange, and he took a lively interest 
in the celebration of the commercial tercentenary. The 















September 29, 1914 349 

Vice President presiding expressed the sincere sorrow of 
his colleagues at the loss which they had sustained. 


Contracts Committee 

The Assistant Secretary presented a letter from Mr. 
Henry L. Bogert of the Contracts Committee, reporting 
for the Chairman, Mr. Harrison, the past week’s work of 
the Committee, referring chiefly to the lease of the Grand 
Central Palace for the commercial exhibits. Received and 
ordered on file. 


Publicity Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon, Chairman of the Publicity Committee, 
reported that the staff was well organized, both for general 
work and the special features associated with the automobile 
division, and the clippings received were an indication of 
a very generous co-operation on the part of the press both 
in New York City and the various sections of the country 
now being circularized. Mr. MacKinnon submitted the fol¬ 
lowing estimate for approval: 


Office rent . $50 00 

Clerks and stenographers. 650 00 

Printing and postage . 400 00 

Traveling expenses . 200 00 

Publicity writers, Messrs. Korbel and Colwell, attached 
to Automobile Auxiliary Committee. 1,200 00 


$2,500 00 

Approved. 


Museum Exhibits Committee 

Dr. Kunz, Chairman of the Museum Exhibits Committee, 
to which $5,000 has been appropriated, reported various 
recommendations and offered the following estimate for 
approval: 

For exhibitions by the museums of the city, including prepara¬ 
tion of volume for distribution, from $2,000 to $2,500. 

For re-editing a volume on City History, bringing it up to date 
and distributing it, $1,700. 

For contingencies and new work, the balance of the appropriation, 
to be held in reserve. 

Approved. 










350 Minutes of Trustees 

Commercial Exhibits Committee — Provisional Appor¬ 
tionment 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial 
Exhibits Committee, reported that the work of the Tide 
Water Standard Co., in arranging for the commercial ex¬ 
hibits was progressing favorably and entries were being re¬ 
ceived for Old New York exhibit. He urged that some 
special bill-board publicity be provided that might advertise 
the exhibition. He submitted a design for a 24-sheet poster 
and explained that it was understood that a local bill-post¬ 
ing concern had expressed a desire to co-operate with the 
Commission and would post a similar sheet, if prepared, 
without cost. 

It was voted that the Publicity Committee be authorized 
to make arrangements, if possible, to carry out Mr. Ritter’s 
suggestion concerning the poster, at an expense of $1,000, 
the expense to be borne in equal proportions by the Com¬ 
mercial Exhibits Committee, the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, the Automobile Auxiliary Committee and the Music 
Festivals Committee. 

(The foregoing action is not a new appropriation, it 
being understood that the expense is to be borne out of 
appropriations already made.) 

Mr. Ritter gave a report of his trip to Washington when 
an effort was made to secure the support of the Interior 
Department in an Indian Exhibit, and' stated that the out¬ 
look was none too encouraging. He moved that if funds 
later became available, the provisional appropriation of 
$2,500 made for this purpose at the meeting of September 
22, 1914 (page 342) be increased to $5,000. 

Carried. 


Commercial Pageants Committee 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, reported the work of the committee progressing in a 
very satisfactory manner, reciting a list of local interests 
that had supplied signed entries for the pageant. It was 
explained that the purchase of the Baltimore floats had not 
been negotiated as there were still some differences between 


September 29, 1914 351 

Mr. Wm. F. Hamilton and himself which he thought well 
to bring to the attention of the Commission. 

Mr. Hamilton, on request, explained his position from 
the time he went to Baltimore to inspect the floats; giving 
an itemized cost of the purchase, transportation, restoration 
and placing on the street for the parade. 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that the Commercial Pageant 
Committee be authorized to secure the floats through Mr. 
Hamilton for the sum of $5,500, the price to include the 
purchase and putting on the street, supplying all necessary 
horses, costumes and men, storage and insurance, provided, 
however, that in the event of inclement weather the com¬ 
mittee notify Mr. Hamilton by noon on the day of October 
31st of the postponement of the parade, in which event no 
additional charge shall be made, but if the postponement be 
decided upon after that hour, the pageant be postponed to 
the following Monday night and Mr. Hamilton be remun¬ 
erated in the sum of $800. 

Carried. 

Mr. Elmer Thompson, Chairman of the Automobile 
Auxiliary Committee of the Commercial Pageants Commit¬ 
tee, reported progress, saying that while there had been a 
delay in receiving the contracts from the printers, the work 
had been going on and numerous representatives of the 
trades and manufacturers had signified a willingness to enter 
and contribute their support to the enterprise. 

C • 

Change in Apportionments 

The subject of rescinding the apportionment of $5,000 
for the Educational Institutions Committee, referred to in 
the minutes of the last meeting, was taken up and Dr. Kunz 
stated that Chancellor Brown, Chairman of the Committee, 
had generously consented to relinquish the appropriation in 
order that it might otherwise be used for the general good 
of the celebration. 

Dr. Stitt therefore moved that the $5,000 heretofore ap¬ 
portioned to the Educational Institutions Committee be 
rescinded, and that the same amount be added to the ap- 


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portionments heretofore made to the Commercial Pageants 
Committee for the purpose of securing the Baltimore floats. 

Carried. 

Music Festivals Committee 

Professor Fleck reported and recommended as Chairman 
of the Music Festivals Committee that a series of musical 
concerts be held throughout the city, explaining that he 
found it extremely difficult to secure artists of sufficient 
prominence to justify the leasing of Madison Square 
Garden. 

The report was discussed at considerable length by the 
Trustees, many favoring at least one large concert during 
the week of October 25th. 

The subject was referred to the committee to go into 
the matter further and report at the next meeting. 

Apportionment for Iteligious Services Committee 

The Rev. Christian F. Reisner, a member of the Commit¬ 
tee on Religious Services, suggested that some effort be 
made to celebrate in the churches throughout the city, the 
300th anniversary of the commercial founding of New 
York, expressing the belief that there would be a general 
response and an opportunity given to thank God for the 
benefits that had come to the city. 

The suggestion met with general approval and Dr. Reis¬ 
ner was requested to confer with the Chairman of the 
Committee, Mr. Crimmins, and perfect a plan. 

Dr.'Stitt moved that the sum of $250 be apportioned to 
the Religious Service Committee. 

Carried. 

Nominated to tlie Mayor for Appointment 

Upon the recommendation of Dr. Kunz, it was voted to 
nominate to His Honor the Mayor, for appointment on 
the Commission, the following named gentlemen: 

Mr. John E. Sloane, No. 15 West 8th Street; and 

Capt. G. F. Mahon, No. 409 Fifth Avenue. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

A. E. Mac Kinnon, 

Assistant Secretary. 


353 


Minutes of 

Commission Meeting 

September 29, 1914 

A general meeting of the New York Commercial Ter* 
centenary Commission was held in the building of the Auto* 
mobile Club of America, at No. 247 West 54th Street, 
New York City, on Tuesday evening, September 29, 1914, 
at 8.15 o’clock. 

The meeting of the Commission was concurrent with the 
meeting of the Trustees called for 7.30 o’clock. 

There were present, in addition to the Trustees named 
on page 345, Mr. Francis Wright Clinton, Mr. John B. 
Creighton, Mr. Warren Cruikshank, Mr. H. W. Dearborn, 
Mr. George H. Duck, Dr. William H. Hale, Mr. Richard 

G. Hollaman, Mr. William Homan, Mr. G. Murray Hurl- 
bert (by Mr. Genert,) Mr. E. A. Norman, Hon. A. J. 
O’Keefe, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Dr. Christian F. 
Reisner, Mr. William B. Selden, Mr. Elmer Thompson, and 
Mr. Abram Wakeman. 

Regrets for absence were received from the following 
named gentlemen in addition to those mentioned in the 
minutes of the Trustees’ meeting: Governor Martin H. 
Glynn, Mr. Edward P. Bates, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Mr. 
E. C. Blum, Mr. William A. Boring, Dr. Nathaniel L. Brit¬ 
ton, Mr. George H. Duck, Mr. Herbert F. Gunnison, Col. 

H. O. S. Heistand, Mr. David H. Hyman, Mr. J. Harris 
Jones, Hon. Ardolph L. Kline, Dr. Edward Lauterbach, 
Hon. Frank Lybolt, Mr. S. C. Mead, Mr. S. A. Miles, Mr. 
Henry Morgenthau, Mr. John E. Parsons, Mr. Clarence W. 
Smith, Mr. James D. Smith, Mr. William R. Stewart, Hon. 
Calvin Tomkins, Hon. James L. Wells, and Mr. W. H. 
Wiley, and they were excused. 

No business was transacted by the Commission independ¬ 
ently of that transacted by the Trustees and recorded on 
the preceding pages. 

A. E. Mac Kinnon, 

Assistant Secretary. 


354 


Minutes of 

Trustees Meeting 

October 7, 1914 

The thirty-first meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the assembly room of the Automobile Club of America 
at No. 247 West 54th Street, New York City, on Wednesday 
evening, October 7, 1914, at 7.30 o’clock. 

The meeting was held concurrently with a meeting of 
the general Commission called for 8.15 o’clock. 


Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Presiding Vice 
President, in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Prof. 
Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Cornelius 
G. Kolfif, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. 
MacKinnon, Mr. William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. 
Olcott, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt, 
Mr. Charles Steckler and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. 
E. A. Norman). 


Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Mr. John Aspegren, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Chan¬ 
cellor Elmer E. Brown, Hon. John A. Cantor, Gen. Howard 
Carroll, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Henry Russell 
Drowne, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Hon. 
William B. Howland, Dr. William H. Maxwell, Mr. Charles 
E. Reid, Col.' Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob J. Schifif, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. Joseph W. Stevens, Dr. Theodore 
N. Vail and Hon. William R. Willcox, and they were ex¬ 
cused. 


October 7 , 1914 


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Treasurer’s Report. 

The report of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
was presented by the accountant, Mr. John J. Baird, as fol¬ 
lows : 


New York, October 7, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentleman :— On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on October 6, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation on account. 

Subscriptions, direct. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Sept. 29, Sept. 29 to 

1914 Oct. 6 Total 

$25,000 00 $4,946 19 $29,946 91 

1,850 00 . 1,85c 00 

4,415 00 50 00 4,46s 00 

488 10 . 488 10 

55 00 3 00 58 00 


$31,808 10 $4,999 19 $36,807 29 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Estimates Appropria- 
approved tions Classification 


$5,000 00 $5,000 Headquarters. $2,855 20 


. 500 Auditing. 

7.500 00 10,000 Commercial exhibits. 1,225 75 $2,500 00 

11,375 00 10,875 Commercial pageants.. 1,766 78 1,666 88 

4,858 00 9,000 Commercial pageants Auto¬ 
mobile parade. 1,020 00 

500 00 1,500 Flag and poster. 

643 50 1,500 Ways and Means. 671 86 . 

9.500 00 10,000 Illuminations. 

11,025 00 11,050 Local festivals. 8,312 44 1,366 59 

640 00 1,000 Medal and badge. 526 25 . 

488 00 488 Medals purchased. 461 50 . 

. 5,000 Memorials. 

5,000 00 5,000 Museum exhibits. 8 50 . 

5,000 00 5,000 Music festivals. 

. 1,000 Panama Canal. .. 

. 1,000 Peace centennial. 

2.500 00 2,500 Publicity... 139 50 53 25 

. 250 Religious meetings. 

. 5,000 Street parades. 

4,000 00 4,000 Secretary’s salary. 4,000 00 . 

5,625 00 5,625 Director of commercial ex¬ 
hibits, salary. 5,625 00 . 


$2,855 20 

3,725 75 
3,433 66 

1,020 00 

671 86 

9,679 03 
526 25 
461 50 

8 50 


192 75 

4,000 00 
5,625 00 


$95,288 


$ 25,592 78 $6,606 72 $32,199 50 
Balance in bank October 6, 1914. $4,607 79 


FUNDS AT OCTOBER 6, 1914 


State appropriation — balance. $70,053 81 

In bank. 4,607 79 


$74,661 60 






























































































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LIABILITIES ACCRUED AT OCTOBER 6 , 1914 
Ways and Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. $182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. 10 05 

Headquarters 

Accountant’s services . 465 00 

Kennedy Circular Advertising Co., printing. 12 50 

The Argus Co., printing. 159 74 

New York Telephone Co. 7 00 

The Tribune Association, rent. 30 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., office supplies. 4 15 

Secretary’s disbursements . 285 38 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 25 00 

Local Festivals 

M. A. Jones and 24 school principals, costumes. 

fares, etc. 344 42 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements, costumes, fares, 

etc. 50 00 

W. J. Lee, payroll. 5 1 00 

Publicity 

Multigraphing Letters Co. 14 25 

Elmer Thompson, Automobile Auxiliary payroll.. 15000 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll. 51 00 

Automobile Club of America, luncheons to automo¬ 
bile editors . 30 80 

Downing Building, rent. 15 00 

C0mmcrcial Exhibits 

For expenses under contract with Tide Water 

Standard Company . 5,000 00 

Commercial Pageants 

George A. Williams & Son, office supplies. 6 15 

Annin & Co., banners, stationery, etc. 532 60 

Annin & Co., banner. 4 50 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing, etc. 104 55 

Oliver Typewriter Co., rental. 12 75 

Landsberg Bros., stationery. 1864 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rental. 35 00 

J. H. Tinsley & Son, printing. 8 00 

Brause Desk Co., furniture. 16 75 

Knickerbocker Desk Co., furniture. 16 50 

C. J, Geiger Co., Inc., typewriter supplies. 4 50 

The Libien Press, scrap book. 1 58 

Albert DeCernea, salary and disbursements. 126 50 

E A. Norman, traveling expenses. 6 50 

Elmer Thompson, auto auxiliary com, payroll. 369 00 

Automobile Club of America, telephone and postage 44 95 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements. 273 95 

L. A. Ames, payroll for office and solicitors. 409 00 

L. A. Ames, payroll for overtime and supper money 85 75 

Louis Annin Ames, pay of solicitors. 429 00 

L. A Ames, committee travelling expenses. 11 38 

Downing Building, rent. 35 00 

W. F. Hamilton, on contract for Baltimore floats.. 3,000 00 









































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Flag and Poster 

Frederick S. Lamb, design for poster. $250 00 

Music Festivals 

Henry T. Fleck, stenographer, services. 15 00 


$12,705 24 

Respectfully submitted, 

J. J. Baird, 

Accountant. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


H eadquarters 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accountants’ services.. $375 00 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., printing. 12 50 

The Argus Co., printing. 159 74 

N. Y. Telephone Co. 7 00 

The Tribune Association, rent. 30 00 

Polhemus Printing Co, office supplies. 4 15 

Secretary’s disbursements . 285 38 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 25 00 

Local Festivals 

W. J. Lee, payroll. 5 1 00 

Publicity 

Multigraphing Letters Co. 14 25 

Elmer Thompson, auto auxiliary payroll. 150 00 

A. E. MacKinnon, payroll. 5 1 00 

Automobile Club of America, luncheons to auto 

editors . 30 80 

Downing Building, rent. 15 00 

Commercial Exhibits 

For expenses under contract with Tide Water 

Standard Company . 7 >5oo 00 

Commercial Pageants 

George A. Williams & Son, office supplies. 6 15 

Annin & Co., banners, stationery, etc. 532 60 

Annin & Co., banner. 4 5o 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing, etc. 104 55 

Oliver Typewriter Co., rental. 12 75 

Landsberg Bros., stationery, etc. 18 64 

Underwood Typewriter Co, rental. 35 00 

J. H. Tinsley & Son, printing. 8 00 

Brause Desk Co., office furniture and rental of 
furniture . 75 






























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Commercial Pageants — Continued: 

Knickerbocker Desk Co., office furniture and rental 
of furniture . $16 50 

G. J. Geiger Co., Inc., typewriter supplies. 4 50 

The Libien Press, scrap book. 1 58 

Albert De Cernea, salary and disbursements. 126 50 

E. A. Norman, travelling expenses. 6 50 

Elmer Thompson, Auto Auxiliary Committee, pay¬ 
roll .. 369 00 

Automobile Club of America, telephone and postage 44 95 

Louis Annin Ames, disbursements. 273 95 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll, office staff and solicitors 409 00 

Louis Annin Ames, payroll, overtime and supper 

money . 85 75 

Louis Annin Ames, commission to solicitors. 429 00 

Louis Annin Ames, committee traveling expenses.. 11 38 

Downing Building, rent. 35 00 

W. F. Hamilton, contract for Baltimore floats- 3,500 00 

Flag and Poster 

Frederick S. Lamb, design for poster. 250 00 

Music Festivals 

H. T. Fleck, stenographer, services. 15 00 


$15,028 37 


Proposed Appropriation by City 

The Secretary reported that on Monday, the 5th inst., 
the Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen gave a 
hearing on the resolution introduced by President McAneny 
on September 29 appropriating $25,000 for the celebration. 
On Tuesday, the 6th, the resolution was reported favorably 
to the Board of Aldermen but amended so as to appropriate 
only $10,000. The resolution was laid over by the Aider- 
men under the rules of the Board for action at a subsequent 
meeting. 

Appointed by the Mayor 

The Secretary reported that the Mayor, acting on the 
recommendation of the Trustees at their last meeting had 
appointed Mr. John E. Sloane and Captain G. F. Mahon 
as members of the Commission. 


Nominated to the Mayor for Appointment 

On the recommendation of Dr. Kunz, it was voted to 
recommend Mr. Henry C. Brown,* printer and publisher, 


* Subsequently declined. 


















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of No. 10 East 40th Street; the Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, 
D.D., pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn; and Rev. Wil¬ 
liam J. Stewart, rector of St. Elizabeth’s Church at 19th 
Street and Broadway, to the Mayor for appointment. 

Mr. Ames read a letter dated September 30, from Mr. 
Peter J. Brady, Secretary of the Allied Printing Trades 
Council of Greater New York, suggesting that the follow¬ 
ing named persons be appointed on the Commission: 

Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation 
of Labor, Washington, D. C., now a resident of New York 
City. 

Daniel Harris, President New York State Federation of 
Labor, 447 81st street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

James Holland, President of the Central Federated Union, 

211 East 45th street, New York City. 

Maurice De Young, President Central Labor Union of 
Brooklyn, 119 Schaefer street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Thomas J. Carroll, President New York State Allied 
Printing Trades Council, 923-4 Pulitzer Building, New 
York City. 

Martin Lawler, Secretary United Hatters of North Amer¬ 
ica, Bible House, New York City. 

Bernard Larger, General Secretary United Garment 
Workers of America, Bible House, New York City. 

James J. Freel, President International Stereotypers & 
Electrotypers Union, 1839 84th street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Roswell D. Tompkins, Secretary, Board of Business 
Agents of the Building Trades, 154 East 54th street, New 
York City. 

Timothy Healy, President, Eccentric Firemen, 211 East 
45th St., New York City. 

Dominick De Allasandro, President, Hod Carriers & Com¬ 
mon Laborers Union of America. 

Harry L. Morrison, Secy. Laundry Workers International 
Union, Box n, Station 1, Troy, N. Y. 

James M. O’Connor, Lithographers International Union, 
Langdon Building, 309 Broadway, New York City. 

John J. Joyce, Secy. International Longshoremen’s Assn., 
702-4 Brisbane Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Stephen C. Hogan, Secy. Marble Workers International 
Assn., 406 East 149th St., New York City. 

Homer D. Call, Secy., Meat Cutters & Butchers Workmen, 

212 May Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. 


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J. T. Carey, Paper Makers International Union (Presi¬ 
dent), 127 North Pearl St., Albany, N. Y. 

Edward I. Hannah, Secy., Pavers & Flagg Makers Inter¬ 
national Union, 223 E. 59th St., New York City. 

John H. Malin, President, Pulp, Sulphite & Paper Mill 
Workers, Fort Edward, N. Y. 

D. J. Ganley Secy. Roofers & Waterproof Workers Inter¬ 
national Union, 14 North Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Charles Shay, President, International Alliance of Theat¬ 
rical State Employes, 1547 Broadway, New York City. 

William Cooke, Business Representative of White Rats 
Actors Union, 227 West 46th St., New York City. 

James N. Hatch, Secretary, Upholsterers International 
Union, 234 First Ave., Long Island City, N. Y. 

E. E. Desmond, Secretary, Wire Weavers Protective 
Association, 27 Woodland Ave., Woodhaven, L. I. 

James M. Lynch, former President of the International 
Typographical Union, Albany, N. Y. 

John Mitchell, former Vice President of the American 
Federation of Labor, No. 1 Madison avenue, New York. 

It was voted to transmit the recommendations to the 
Mayor with the request that he make a selection from the 
names proposed. 


Ceremonies Officially Recognized 

Following the precedent of the Hudson-Fulton Celebra¬ 
tion Commission, it was voted to give official recognition 
to the following ceremonies to be conducted without ex¬ 
pense to the Commission: 

The dedication of an historic cannon in Battery Park on 
Saturday, October 31, by the City History Club, of which 
Mrs. Robert Abbe is Honorary President, Mrs. A. Barton 
Hepburn, President, and Mrs. Carr Van Anda of No. 105 
West 40th Street, Secretary. 

A convention of delegates representing the historical, 
patriotic and commercial societies and associations of the 
State at Fraunces’ Tavern, October 31, under the auspices 
of the Lower Wall Street Business Men’s Association, of 
which Hon. Seth Low is Honorary President, Mr. William 
Bayne, Jr., President, and Mr. Abram Wakeman of 96 
Water Street, Secretary. The plan of this Association in- 


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eludes a luncheon and dinner, participation in the Com¬ 
mercial Pageant on the evening of October 31, and historical 
services in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, No. 131 
West 104th Street, on Sunday, November 1. 

Memorial Watergate 

The Secretary, referring to the report of the late Dr. 
Hooper (page 157) that the Robert Fulton Watergate As¬ 
sociation had expended $50,000 in preliminary expenses of 
the Watergate, and the recommendation that this Commission 
contribute $5,000 toward the preparation of revised plans, 
stated that the Presiding Vice President had received a 
letter from a member of the Commission, dated September 
30, 1914, asking for detailed information as to the expend¬ 
itures already made by the Robert Fulton Watergate Asso¬ 
ciation. 

Mr. H. W. Dearborn, a member of this Commission and 
Secretary of the Watergate Association, said that one large 
item of expense was the prizes offered for plans, there being 
ten prizes, ranging from $3,000 downward. 


Commercial Pageants Committee 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, reported that he had sent out 49,000 letters, and 
that the Automobile Parade for October 28 and the Com¬ 
mercial Pageant for October 31, were being rapidly organ¬ 
ized. He gave the following summary of entries for these 
parades: 

For the Automobile Parade, about 3,000 cars have been 
entered. Governor Glynn has promised that he and his full 
staff will ride at the head of the automobile pageant. 
The Automobile Club of America will give a public recep¬ 
tion and luncheon in honor of the Governor. 

For the Commercial Pageant, there have been 374 signed 
entries, consisting of 49 floats, 150 decorated automobiles 
and 175 decorated wagons. To these will be added 57 other 
floats as follows: Baltimore historical floats 24, Baltimore 
city floats 6, Coney Island floats 11, Local Festivals floats 5, 
Syracuse 6, Utica 2, Patterson, Buffalo and Rochester 1 


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each, making a total of 431. Twenty-six Captains of In¬ 
dustry will ride in automobiles and on horseback; and other 
promised entries are 50 equestrians, 75 heavy harness show 
horses, and 1,600 representatives of patriotic and historical 
societies. 

The pageant will start on October 31 at 7 p. m. from 
Madison Avenue and 125th Street and proceed by way of 
125th Street, Morningside Avenue, noth Street, Broadway, 
59th Street, 5th Avenue, 34th Street and up Broadway to 
Columbus Circle. 

Mr. MacKinnon said that it was hoped that the New 
York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co., would enter 
a set of floats showing the first railroad train in comparison 
with a modern electric locomotive. 

Mr. Olcott intimated that the Hudson River Day Line 
might enter models of the original Clermont and the modern 
Hendrick Hudson steamboats. 

Dr. Kunz said that Admiral Peary, Gen. Miles, and other 
distinguished men would ride in the pageant. 

Apportionment Changed 

It was voted that $1,000 of the apportionment heretofore 
made to the Flag and Poster Committee be rescinded and 
apportioned to the Commercial Pageant Committee. 

There was a long discussion of Mr. Ames’ request for 
a further apportionment of $5,000 for the Commercial 
Pageants Committee, the discussion being participated in 
by Messrs. Ames, MacKinnon, Hollaman, Lagerlof, Sloane, 
Kunz, Kolff, Hall and other Trustees and members of the 
Commission, and several motions were made without action. 
(Action was deferred until later in the meeting, other busi¬ 
ness being transacted in the meantime, but is recorded here 
for the sake of continuity.) At length, on motion of Mr. 
MacKinnon, it was voted that the chairmen of Committees 
and the executive officers be appointed a committee to con¬ 
fer on the subject of a reapportionment of funds and report 
to the next meeting. 


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October 7, 1914 

Commercial Exhibits Committee — Special Fund 

Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial 
Exhibits Committee, reported good progress in the arrange¬ 
ments of the Commercial Exhibits in the Grand Central 
Palace in November. It was proposed to give twenty 
diplomas to the best exhibitors, entitling them to medals. 
Mr. Ritter asked that arrangements be made for the quick 
payment of the bills to be contracted under the joint arrange¬ 
ment with the Tidewater Standard Co. 

Mr. Napier, of that company, reinforced Mr. Ritter’s 
recommendations. 

It was voted that the place of deposit of the joint account 
be determined by the Secretary and Mr. Napier. 

The question as to who should sign the joint checks 
against this account in behalf of the Commission was re¬ 
ferred to the Secretary and Mr. Napier. 


Souvenir Books and Medals 

Mr. Napier inquired about some proposed souvenir books 
which he thought would conflict with the privileges of the 
Tidewater Standard Co., under its contract with the Com¬ 
mission. Referred to Mr. MacKinnon and Mr. Napier. 

It was voted that the Tidewater Standard Co., have the 
exclusive privilege to sell small souvenir medals copied 
after the designs of the official medal and the official poster, 
a percentage of the proceeds to go to the Commission under 
the contract with the Tidewater Standard Co. 

Illuminations Committee 

Mr. Norman in behalf of Mr. Williams, Chairman of the 
Illuminations Committee, reported that the poles were being 
erected for the street illuminations and that the plans were 
progressing well. 

Local Festivals Committee 

Mr. Lee reported that the Local Festivals Committee was 
continuing its work, co-operating in the production of the 
Harlem pageant. His committee would not exceed its 
present apportionment and would have something to spare. 


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Music Festivals Committee 

Prof. Fleck reported that the Music Festivals Committee 
had arranged festivals in the public schools on October 26, 
27, 29 and 30, and November 1 to 7. He would require his 
full apportionment of $5,000. 


Publicity Committee 

Mr. MacKinnon reported the success of the Publicity 
Committee in getting space in the newspapers. His efforts 
to get free space on billboards had not been very successful, 
as the owners showed no tendency to give space without 

1 

compensation. About $325 was being spent on printing 
posters. 

Religious Services — Apportionments Changed 

The Rev. Christian F. Reisner, a member of the Religious 
Services Committee, reported that on that day there had 
been a meeting of 20 clergymen, representing 9 leading 
denominations, at which plans were discussed. Mr. Crim- 
mins, Chairman of the Committee, presided. It is planned 
to ask all the clergymen of the city 011 Sunday, October 25, 
to preach on “ God in History,” also to publish and dis¬ 
tribute a pamphlet on the religious history of New York; 
also to hold a great central religious meeting in some place 
like the Hippodrome or Madison Square Garden. He asked 
that the former apportionment of $250 for the Religious 
Services Committee be increased to $1,500. 

The report was discussed pro and con by Dr. Kunz, Prof. 
Fleck, Mr. Olcott, Mr. Ames, Mr. Hall and others, resulting 
in the following action: 

On motion of Dr. Kunz, it was voted that $1,000 of the 
apportionment of the Museum Exhibits Committee be 
rescinded and apportioned to the Religious Services Com¬ 
mittee. 

On motion of Mr. MacKinnon, it was voted that $100 
of the apportionment of the Publicity Committee be re¬ 
scinded and apportioned to the Religious Services Commit¬ 
tee. 


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365 


On motion of Prof. Fleck it was voted that $100 of the 
apportionment of the Music Festivals Committee be re¬ 
scinded and apportioned to the Religious Services Com¬ 
mittee. 

On motion of Mr. Lee it was voted that $50 of the ap¬ 
portionment of the Local Festivals Committee be rescinded 
and apportioned to the Religious Services Committee. 


Indian Exhibit — Apportionments Changed 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial Ex¬ 
hibits Committee, made a plea for funds for the proposed 
Indian Exhibit. 

Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker 
expeditions among the Indians, was accorded the privilege 
of the floor and asked for $2,500 to cover part of the ex¬ 
penses of the Indian Exhibit. This, he believed, would be 
returned through admission fees. The Commission would 
have the benefit of 15 miles of moving picture films, 4,000 
negatives and 1,000 stereopticon views of the Wanamaker 
expeditions, which, with the presence of living Indians and 
the delivery of lectures would add greatly to the attractive¬ 
ness of the Commercial Exhibits and the celebration gen¬ 
erally. 

At the suggestion of Dr. Kunz, it was voted that $1,500 
of the apportionment of the Museum Exhibits Committee 
be rescinded and apportioned to the Commercial Exhibits 
Committee for the Indian exhibit, with the express under¬ 
standing that a like amount of the revenue of the Com¬ 
mission from the Indian Exhibit shall be reapportioned to 
the Museum Exhibit Committee. 


Aviation Committee Created 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that an Aviation Committee be 
created and that Mr. Sloane be appointed Chairman. 
Carried. 

Hotel Hospitality for Guests 

Mr. Ames read a letter from Mr. Harry P. Stimson, 
Secretary of the Hotel Association of New York City, to 


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Mr. Muschenheim, dated October 5, stating that the general 
feeling of the members of 'the Association was that they 
would be happy to furnish, without charge, room accom¬ 
modations only for public officials whom the Commission 
might wish to entertain, but that food and other items should 
be paid for. 

It was voted that the Commission accept and thank the 
Hotel Association for its proffered hospitality. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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Minutes of 

Commission Meeting 

October 7, 1914 

A general meeting of the New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission was held in the assembly room of 
the Automobile Club of America at No. 247 West 54th 
Street, New York City, on Wednesday evening, October 7, 
at 8.15 o’clock. 

The meeting of the Commission was concurrent with a 
meeting of the Trustees called for the same evening. 

There were present, in addition to the Trustees named 
on page 354, Mr. E. B. Boynton, Mr. Francis Wright 
Clinton, Dr. C. Ward Crampton, Mr. H. W. Dearborn, Dr. 
William H. Hale, Mr. Richard G. Hollaman, Mr. E. A. 
Norman, Mr. Charles W. Price, Dr. Christian F. Reisner, 
Mr. William B. Selden, Mr. John E. Sloane and Mr. Abram 
Wakeman. 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Edward P. 
Bates, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Mr. Edward C. Blum, Mr. 
John H. Burroughs, Mr. Hugh Connolly, Mr. Joseph L. 
Delafield, Mr. George L. Egbert, Rt. Rev. D. H. Greer, 
Col. H. O. S. Heistand, Hon. Ardolph L. Kline, Hon. Henry 
A. Jordan, Dr. Edward Lauterbach, Mr. John E. Parsons, 
Mr. George M. Seeley, Hon. William R. Stewart, Hon. 
Calvin Tomkins and Mr. William J. Wollman, and they 
were excused. 

The Commission concurred in the business transacted by 
the Trustees and recorded in the preceding pages. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


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OFFICERS 


(Revised to October 14, 1914) 

Honorary Presidents 

His Excellency the Governor of New York State, 

Martin H. Glynn. 

His Honor the Mayor of New York City, 

John Purroy Mitchel. 

President 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row, New York. 


Vice-Presidents 

1st Presiding, Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

2d Presiding, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 


Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Edward P. V. Ritter 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail, LL.D. 
Arthur Williams 
William Ziegler, Jr. 

Treasurer 


Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 


Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York. 



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Chairmen of Standing Committees 


Athletics . 

Aviation . 

Auditing . 

Commercial Exhibits .. • 
Commercial Pageants ... 

Contracts .. 

Design and Decoration ... 
Educational Institutions 

Executive . 

Flag and Poster. 

Historical Meetings 

Illuminations . 

Law and Legislation .... 

Local Festivals. 

Medal and Badge. 

Memorials . 

Museum Exhibits . 

Music Festivals . 

Naval Events . 

Netherlands . 

Nominations . 

Panama Canal . 

Peace Centennial . 

Plan and Scope. 

Publicity. 

Reception . 

Religious Meetings . 

Reviewing Stand. 

Street Parades . 


Vacant 

John E. Sloane 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. Robert L. Harrison 
Charles R. Lamb 
Elmer E. Brown, Ph.D , LL.D. 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Louis Annin Ames 
Samuel V. Hoffman 
Arthur Williams 
Hon. Alton B. Parker 
William J. Lee 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck 
( Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
[ Com. F. B. Dalzell, Vice-Chn. 
Henry L. Bogert 
Vacant 

Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Vacant 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Samuel W. Fairchild 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
V acant 

Gen. George R. Dyer 































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COMMISSION 

Members by Appointment 

(Revised to October 14, 1914. Names of Trustees in Italics.) 


Hon. Robert Adamson 

John Adikes 

Lieut C. J. Ahern 

Newton D. Ailing 

William, J. Amend 

Louis Annin Ames 

Hon. R. Ross Appleton 

John D. Archbold 

John Aspegren 

Vincent Astor 

Robert C. Auld 

Charles J. Austin 

Aaron J. Bach 

Henry Bacon 

Bernard M. Baruch 

A. G. Batchelder 

Edward P. Bates 

Joseph F. Becker 

Charles Beckman 

August Belmont 

Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Tunis G. Bergen, LL.D. 

Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Edward J. Berwind 
Union N. Bethell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 
George C. Boldt 
Reginald Pelham Bolton 
Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 
H. A. Bonnell 
Paul Bonynge 
Charles A. Boody 
Hon. David A. Boody 
William A. Boring 
E. B. Boynton 


Nicholas F. Brady 
William C. Breed 
Herbert L. Bridgman 
Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc.D., 
Ph.D. 

C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph.D., LL.D. 
James W. Brown 
Andrew F. Burleigh 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL.D., 
Litt.D. 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Herman H. Cammann. 

Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
John Claflin 

Henry Clews, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Francis Wright Clinton 

Edward K. Cone 

Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

Edmund C. Converse 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

William E. Corey 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 


Members of the Commission 


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C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 
Walter S. Crandell 
Rev. R. Fulton Crary, D.D. 
John B. Creighton 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
William N. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Hon. H. H. Curran 
R. Fulton Cutting, LL.D. 
Charles F. Daly 
Com. Fred. B. Dalzell 
H. W. Dearborn 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
John D. DeFriest 
Joseph L. Delafield 
Richard Delafield 
William C. Demorest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
John Dowd 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling 
Edward A. Drake 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
George H. Duck 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Eames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Hon. William B. Ellison 
Amos F. Eno 
Hon. John E. Eustis 
Clarence L. Fabre 
Samuel W. Fairchild 
His Eminence John Cardinal 
Farley 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley, Ph.D., I.L.D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 


Berthold Flesch, M.D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 
W. C. Freeman 
John C. Freund 
Henry C. Frick 
Charles H. Fuller 
Michael Furst 

Asa Bird Gardiner, LL.D., L.H.D. 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

James Gayley 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. Gould 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D. 
Henry E. Gregory 
T. Greidanus 
Murray Guggenheim 
Herbert F. Gunnison 
A. E. Hadlock 
William H. Hale, Ph.D. 
Edward Hagaman Hall L.H.D. 
Maj. Isaac A. Hall 
Matthew P. Halpin 
J. W. H. Hamilton 
Hon. John Hays Hammond 
C. C. Hanch 
J. E. Hardenbergh 
Hon. Robert L. Harrison 
Ernest Harvier 
Hon. A. Augustus Healy 
Col. H. O. S. Heistand, U.S.A. 
John A. Hennessy 
Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 
Samuel V. Hoffman 
.Edward Holbrook 
Lansing C. Holden 
Richard G. Hollaman 
William Homan 
R. H. Hooper 
John J. Hopper 
Major F. L. V. Hoppin 
Walter B. Hopping 


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Members of the Commission 


Roy W. Howard 
Hon. William B. Howland 
Hon. Charles E. Hughes 
Andrew B. Humphrey 
Archer M. Huntington, Litt.D. 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 
Arthur Curtiss James 
A. E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S. 

Prof. Plenry P. Johnston 

William A. Johnston 

J. Harris Jones 

Lncien Jouvand 

Otto H. Kahn 

Robert C. Kammerer 

Hon. Benjamin A. Keiley 

Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 

Cornelius G. Kolff 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Hans Lagerlof 

Charles R. Lamb 

Leopold L. Langrock 

Edward Lauterbach, LL.D. 

William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph.D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
Nelson P. Lewis 

W. V. Lifsey 
Prof. Austin W. Lord 
Stephen Lounsbery 
R. Fulton Ludlow 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Capt. G. F. Mahon 
Julius D. Mahr 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
Hon. Alrick H. Man 
William A. Marble 
Hon. Marcus M. Marks 
Hon. Douglas Mathewson 
William H. Maxwell, Ph.D., 
LL.D. 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 
Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 


Hon. George B. McClellan 

Hon. Charles J. McCormack 

Alfred J. McGrath 

John J. McKelvey 

S. C. Mead 

William R. Mead 

Rev. H. Pereira Mendes, D.D. 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 

Hugh Gordon Miller 

L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
Henry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M.D. 

Frank A. Munsey 

Joseph Brady Murray 

William C. Muschenheim 

Adolph I. Namm 

William A. Nash 

George L. Naught 

Hon. William W. Niles 

E A. Norman 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 

Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 

Hon. James A. O’Gorman 

Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 

Eben E. Olcott 

Robert Olyphant 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

John E. Parsons 

Wm. Barclay Parsons, LL.D. 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. Frank L. Polk 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 

John A. Poynton 

Frederick B. Pratt 

Hon. William A. Pendergast 

Charles W. Price 


Members of the Commission 


373 


Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 
William E. Pulsifer 
A. A. Raven 
H. H. Raymond 
Norman B. Ream 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reick 
Charles E. Reid 
Daniel G. Reid 

Rev. Christian F. Reisner, D. D. 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Carl Ridemeister 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
George L. Rives, LL.D. 

Rev. Spencer S. Roche 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubier* 

Henry Ruhlander 

Col. Jacob Ruppert 

Willis Wilmington Russell 

Thomas F. Ryan 

Col. Henry W. Sackett 

F. Augustus Schermerhorn 

Hon. Charles A. Schieren 

Jacob H. Schiff 

Leo Schlesinger 

Walter Scott 

George Martin Seeley 

William B. Seldon 

Isaac N. Seligman 

Col. John L. Shepherd 

Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 

Henry Siegel 

A. Silz 

William Simmons 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
John E. Sloane 
Frank W. Smith 
George Carson Smith 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
Nelson S. Spencer 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Spratt 


Charles Steckler 

Hon. Alfred E. Steers 

J. H. Steinhardt 

John A. Stewart 

Hon. Wm. R. Stewart 

Anthony E. Stilger 

Rev. E. M. Stires, D.D., LL.D. 

Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

Melville E. Stone 

Hon. Charles B. Stover 

Jacob Stumpf 

Henry W. Taft 

Willard U. Taylor 

Elmer Thompson 

Hon. Calvin Tomkins 

Hon. Charles A. Towne 

Henry R. Towne 

Albert Ulmann 

William J. Underwood 

Samuel Untermeyer 

Theodore N. Vail, LL.D. 

Lee J. Vance 

William S. Van Clief 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 

William K. Vanderbilt 

Abram Wakeman 

Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 

Hon. Judson G. Wall 

Henry Walters 

Hon. John Wanamaker 

Paul M. Warburg 

Whitney Warren 

Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 

Hon. James L. Wells 

Edmund Wetmore 

Major Robert A. Widenmann 

Major William H. Wiley 

Hon. William R. Willcox 

Arthur Williams 

Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D. 

T. S. Williams 

Francis M. Wilson 

Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 

Charles B. Wolffram 

William J. Wollman 

Henry A. Wise Wood 


374 


Members of the Commission 


Otis Fenner Wood James C. Young 

Major James Otis Woodward John R. Young 
F. W. Wool worth William Ziegler, Jr. 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 


Albany . Hon. Joseph W. Stevens 

Amsterdam ..Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn .Hon. C. W. Brister 

Beacon .Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton . Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo .Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua .Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes . Hon. James S. Calkins 

Corning .Hon. Lewis N. Lattin 

Cortlandt .Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk .Hon. J. T. Sullivan 

Elmira ..Hon. Harry N. Hoffman 

Fulton ....Hon. Frank E. Fox 

Geneva .Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Gripping 

Gloversville .Hon. G. W. Schermerhorn 

Hornell .Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca .Hon Thomas Tree 

Jamestown .Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown .Hon. Clarence W. Smith 

Kingston . Hon. Palmer Canfield, Jr. 

Lackawanna .Hon. John I. Sidmey 

Little Falls .Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport .Hon. George A. Brock 

Middletown .Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh . Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Edward Stetson Griffing 

New York .Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

Niagara Falls .Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda .Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh .Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean .Hon. W. H. Simpson 

Oneida .Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta .Hon. Joseph S. Lunn 

Oswego .Hon. Thomas F. Hennessey 

Plattsburgh .Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis....Hon. Frank Lybolt 

Poughkeepsie . Hon. Daniel W. Wilber 

Rensselaer . Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester .Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 












































Members of the Commission 


375 


Rome .Hon. H. C. Midlam 

Schenectady .Hon. J. Teller Schoolcraft 

Syracuse . Hon. Louis Will 

Tonawanda .Hon. Albert J. Cordes 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica .Hon. James D. Smith 

Watertown . Hon. Isaac R. Breen 

Watervliet . Hon. Edwin W. Joslin 

Yonkers . Hon. Janies T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton . 

Catskill . 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth . 

Cornwall . 

Coxsackie . 

Croton-on-Hudson , 

Dobbs Ferry . 

Fishkill . 

Fort Edward . 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw . 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington . 

Mechanicville . 

North Tarrytown.. 

Nyack . 

Ossining . 

Peekskill . 

Piermont . 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck . 

Saugerties . 

Schuylerville . 

South Glens Falls.. 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater . 

Tarrytown .. 

Tivoli . 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills . 

Wappingers Falls 

Waterford . 

West Haverstraw . 


Hon. William M. Collier 
Hon. Christian Peters 
Hon. Willis A. Haines 
Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
Hon. J. Finley Work 
Hon. William B. Cocks 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. John F. Green 
Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. FI. C. Munson 
Hon. Thomas H. Goundry 
Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
Hon. William R. Palmer 
Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 






























































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Minutes of 

Trustees’ Meeting 

October 14, 1914 

The thirty-second meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the assembly room of the Automobile Club of America, 
at No. 247 West 54th Street, New York City, on Wednesday 
evening, October 14, 1914, at 8 o’clock. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Presiding Vice- 
President, in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Robert 
Grier Cooke, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman 
Hall, Mr. Cornelius G. Kolfif, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. 
William j. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. William C. 
Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Mr. Charles Steckler, Dr. Edward 
W. Stitt, and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman.) 

The courtesy of the meeting was extended to Aldermen 
Lauren Carroll, son of the President of the Commission, 
who was invited to sit next to the Vice-President presiding. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Mr. Union N. Bethell, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Chan¬ 
cellor Elmer E. Brown, Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard 
Carroll, Hon. Robert W. De Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, 
Hon. William B. Howland, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac 
N. Seligman, and Hon. Robert A. C. Smith, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of October 7, 1914, were 
read and approved. 


378 


Minutes of Trustees 


Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
Treasurer, Mr. John J. Baird, accountant, presented the 
following report: 

New York, October 14, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen : On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on October 14, 1914: 


receipts 

To Oct. 6, 
JQ14 


State appropriation on account. 129,946 19 

Subscriptions direct. 1.850 00 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means. 4.465 00 

Subscriptions for medals. 488 10 

Subscriptions for badges. 58 00 


$36,807 29 


Oct. 6 to 

Oct. 14 Total 

$ 13,305 25 $ 43,251 44 

25 00 1,875 00 

100 00 4,565 00 

. 488 10 

3 00 61 00 


$13,433 25 $50,240 54 


Estimates Appro- 
approved priation 


$5,000 

00 

$5,000 


500 

7,500 

00 

10,000 



1,500 

H .375 

00 

11,875 

4,858 

00 

9,000 

500 

00 

500 

643 

50 

1,500 

9,500 

00 

10,000 

11,025 

00 

II,000 

640 

00 

I ,000 

488 

00 

488 



5,000 

5,000 

00 

2,500 

5,000 

00 

4,900 



I ,000 



1,000 

2,500 

00 

2,400 



1,500 



5,000 

4,000 

00 

4,000 

5,625 

00 

5,625 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Classification 

Headquarters. $2,855 20 

Auditing._.. .. 

Commercial exhibits. 3,725 75 

Commercial Exhibits: Indian 

Exhibit. 

Commercial pageants. 3,433 66 

Commercial pageants, automo¬ 
bile parade. 1,020 00 

Flag and poster. 

Ways and means. 671 86 

Illuminations. 

Local festivals. 9,679 03 

Medal and badge. 526 25 

Medals purchased. 461 50 

Memorials. 

Museum exhibits. 850 

Music festivals. 

Panama canal .. 

Peace centennial. 

Publicity... 192 75 

Religious meetings. 

Street parades. 

Secretary’s salary.. 4,000 00 

Director of commercial ex¬ 
hibits, salary. 5,625 00 


$898 77 


500 00 
5,098 29 

454 26 
250 00 


51 00 


15 00 


261 05 


$ 3,753 97 


3,725 

75 

500 

00 

8,531 

95 

1,474 

26 

250 

00 

671 

86 

9,730 

03 

526 

25 

461 

50 


8 50 
15 00 


453 80 


4,000 00 
5,625 00 


$95,288 


$ 32,199 50 $7,528 37 $ 39,727 87 


Balance in bank October 14, 1914 


$10,512 67 


FUNDS AT OCTOBER 14, 1914 


State Appropriation — balance . $56,74856 

In bank . 10,512 67 


$67,261 23 





































































































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October 14 , 1914 


LIABILITIES ACCRUED AT OCTOBER 14, 1914 


Ways & Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, Traveling Expenses. $182 40 

F. S. Bishop, ditto. 10 05 

Headquarters 

Accountant’s services. 180 00 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 25 00 

Remington Typewriter Co. 3 00 

Kennedy Circular Advertising Co. 2 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. 6 85 

Local Festivals 

M. A. Jones and 24 School Principals, costumes, 

fares, etc. 344 42 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements, ditto. 50 00 

William J. Lee, pay roll. 54 00 

Publicity 

A. E. MacKinnon, pay roll. 85 45 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 150 00 

Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 20 00 

Multigraphing Letters Co., printing. 3 00 

Commercial Exhibits 

For expenses under contract with Tidewater 
Standard Co. 2,500 00 

Commercial Exhibits, Indian Exhibit 

Dr. J. K. Dixon, expenses procuring Indians. 1,000 00 


Music Festivals 

H. T. Fleck, pay roll. 

Commercial Pageants 

W. F. Hamilton, contract for 

Baltimore floats . 

Albert DeCernea, salary & 

disbursements. 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll.. 
Louis Annin Ames, pay roll. 
Louis Annin Ames, tele¬ 
phone, postage, etc. 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll, 
overtime & supper money. 
Peerless Towel Supply Co., 
towel service . 


. 15 00 

Auto 

Pageant Parade 

$2,000 00 
125 92 

$366 00 

203 00 
106 57 
40 00 
1 15 























380 


Minutes of Trustees 


Commercial Pageants —(Cont’d) 

Pageant 

Auto 

Parade 

Fuller Electric Co., lights... 

$5 20 


Multigraphing Letters Co., 
printing. 


$13 95 

Polhemus Printing Co., 
printing . 


92 25 

Polhemus Printing Co., 

printing . 

23 10 


Knickerbocker Ice Co., ice.. 

1 00 


Landsberg Bros., stationery. 

45 


Commercial Despatch Ad¬ 
dressing & Delivery Co., 
printing . 

148 50 


Oliver Typewriter Co., rib¬ 
bons . 

3 75 


Great Bear Spring Co., water 

2 50 


Wynkoop Plallenbeck Craw¬ 
ford Co., stationery and 
printing . 

215 75 


Brause Desk Co., rent of 
furniture . 

17 00 


Landsberg Bros. 

15 


H. D. and D. F. Fleck, 
traveling expenses. 

266 05 



$3, 160 09 $472 20 $3,632 29 


$8, 263 46 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 

The report was received and ordered ou file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


Headquarters 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. $25 00 

Local Festivals 

William J. Lee, pay roll. 54 00 






















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381 


Publicity 

A. E. MacKinnon, pay roll. $85 45 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 150 00 

Commercial Exhibits, Indian Exhibit 

Dr. J. K. Dixon, expenses in procuring Indians. . . . 1.000 00 

Music Festivals 

Henry T. Fleck, pay roll. 15 00 

Commercial Pageants 

Albert De Cernea, salary and disbursements. 125 92 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 366 00 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll. 203 00 

Louis Annin Ames, telephone, postage, etc. 106 57 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll, overtime and supper 

money . 40 00 

H. D. & D. F. Fleck, traveling expenses. 266 05 


$2,436 99 


Apportionments of Funds Changed 

The Secretary reported that pursuant to the action of 
the last Trustees’ meeting, the Chairmen of the Committees 
and Executive Officers had met the previous day to consider 
the question of a reapportionment of funds. Those present 
were Messrs. Kunz, Ames, Crimmins, Dalzell, Hall, Mac¬ 
Kinnon, Phillips, Ritter, Sloane, and Williams (by Mr. 
Norman). They recommended the rescinding of the fol¬ 
lowing apportionments and parts of apportionments: 


Ways and Means Committee. $500.00 

Local Festivals Committee . 50.00 

Medals and Badges Committee. 200.00 

Panama Canal Committee. 800.00 

Peace Centennial Committee. 1,000.00 


$2,550.00 


It was voted that the apportionments be rescinded as 
recommended, and that $2,550 be apportioned to the Com¬ 
mercial Pageants Committee in addition to the apportion¬ 
ments heretofore made to that Committee. 






















382 


Minutes of Trustees 


It was voted that the disbursement of the $5,000 hereto¬ 
fore appropriated for Street Parades, having in contempla¬ 
tion the expenses for music, marshals, etc., be placed under 
the jurisdiction of the Commercial Pageants Committee, 
reserving as much as may be necessary for the personal ex¬ 
penses of the Chairman of the Street Parades Committee 
as Grand Marshal and for his staff. 

Following is a revised list of apportionments, including 
the foregoing changes: 

Auditing Committee. $500.00 

Commercial Exhibits Committee: Commercial 

Exhibits. 10,000.00 

Commercial Exhibits for Indian Exhibition. . 1,500.00 

Commercial Exhibits, Director of. 5,625.00 

Commercial Pageants Committee: General... 14,425.00 
Commercial Pageants Committee, for street 

parade expenses . 5,000.00 

Commercial Pageants Committee for automo¬ 
bile parade . 5,000.00 

Commercial Pageants Committee for guar¬ 
antee of auto prizes. 4,000.00 

Flag and Poster Committee. 500.00 

Headquarters: General expenses. 5,000.00 

Headquarters: Secretary’s salary. 4,000.00 

Illuminations Committee. 10,000.00 

Local Festivals Committee. 10,950.00 

Medal and Badge Committee. 800.00 

Medal and Badge Committee, for medals and 

badges purchased. 488.00 

Memorials Committee . 5,000.00 

Museum Exhibits Committee. 2,500.00 

Music Festivals Committee. 4,900.00 

Panama Canal Committee. 200.00 

Publicity Committee. 2,400.00 

Religious Meetings Committee. 1,500 00 

Ways and Means Committee. 1,000.00 


$95,288.00 


Approved Estimates Changed 

The apportionments of several committees having been 
reduced since the approval of their original estimates, it 
was voted that the approval of the estimates of the follow- 

























October 14, 1914 383 

ing named committees be reconsidered and approved at the 
following figures: 

Local Festivals Committee. $10,950.00 

Museum Exhibits Committee. 2,500.00 

Music Festivals Committee. 4,900.00 

Publicity Committee. 2,400.00 


City Appropriation 

Alderman Carroll, by request, reported that on Tuesday, 
October 13, the Board of Aldermen had passed a resolution 
appropriating $10,000 for the purposes of the celebration, 
to be disbursed under the direction of a joint committee 
of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Estimate and Ap¬ 
portionment in conjunction with this Commission. The 
resolution must be passed also by the Board of Estimate 
and Apportionment. 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that a committee of five, to in¬ 
clude the Presiding Vice President, be appointed to act 
jointly with the Committee of the Board of Aldermen and 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment in disbursing the 
city appropriation. 

The motion was carried and the Presiding Vice President 
appointed Messrs. Ames, Kunz, Lee, MacKinnon and Wil¬ 
liams (by Mr. Norman). 

Mr. Lagerlof moved that a suitable expression of ap¬ 
preciation be sent to the Board of Aldermen and Board of 
Estimate for their cooperation. Carried. 

Committee Changes 

The resignation of Mr. Vanderbilt as Chairman of the 
Reception Committee was accepted with regret and Mr. 
Samuel W. Fairchild was appointed in his stead. 

The resignation of Mr. Howland as Chairman of the 
Peace Centennial Committee was accepted with regret. 

Mr. Bridgman was appointed Chairman of the Memorials 
Committee, in place of Dr. Hooper, deceased. 

Nominated for Appointment on the Commission 

On motion of Mr. Ames, it was voted to recommend to 
Mayor Mitchel that he appoint Rev. Frank O. Hall, D. D., 
pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, 76th Street 








Minutes of Trustees 


384 

and Central Park West, and on motion of Dr. Kunz it 
was voted to nominate Mr. Frederick Sterry, Managing 
Director of the Plaza Plotel as members of the Commission. 

Commercial Exhibits Committee 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter reported progress in the arrangements 
for the commercial exhibits at the Grand Central Palace 
from November 7 to 21. The Secretary of the Treasury 
had consented to the use of the exhibit of the United States 
Mint, now in the Grand Central Palace, provided the Com¬ 
mission paid the actual running expenses of the plant — 
about $30 a day. The plant shows the complete process of 
minting coins, from the melting of the crude metal to the 
production of the finished coin. Dies are being cut by 
Tiffany & Co., to be used in mining small fac-similes of 
the Official Medal about the size of a $20 gold piece, which 
will be sold and yield an income. An effort will be made 
to secure the Cuban exhibit now in Boston. 

Since the last meeting, Mr. Ritter said, a contract had 
been executed with Dr. Joseph K. Dixon for the installation 
of the Indian exhibit. (See pages 234, 274, 342, 350 and 
365.) Dr. Dixon gives his services, and the contract pro¬ 
vides for the payment to him of $1,500 toward the expenses 
of the exhibition. The expenses will exceed that amount, 
but an income is expected from the admission fee of twenty- 
five cents. Members of the Commission and two persons 
each are to be admitted to the Indian exhibit free at all 
times. The net proceeds are to be divided equally between 
the Commission and the National American Indian Memo¬ 
rial Association. (See below.) 

Mr. Ritter explained that if the receipts from the Indian 
exhibit were not sufficient to pay for the floor rental, light¬ 
ing, heating and elevator service, the Grand Central Palace 
would forego compensation for those things. 

The contract with Dr. Dixon was read and approved. 

National American Indian Memorial Recognized 

A special minute is here made of the following paragraph 
in the contract with Dr. Dixon which, by the foregoing 
action, is ratified with the other provisions of the contract. 


October 14, 1914 


385 


“ It is mutually agreed that the National American Indian 
Memorial, authorized by act of Congress approved by the 
President of the United States December 11, 1911, and for 
which the President broke ground at Fort Wadsworth, 
Staten Island, February 22, 1913, shall be recognized as 
one of the memorials of the New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission without the assumption by said Com¬ 
mission of any obligation on that account beyond the terms 
of this agreement; and that the tickets of admission to the 
Indian Exhibition herein provided for shall bear the words: 

1 For the benefit of the National American Indian Memorial, 
one of the recognized memorials of the New York Com¬ 
mercial Tercentenary Commission ’ or words to that effect/’ 

Commemorative Medallion Recognized 

Dr. Kunz exhibited photographs of a model of a medallion 
designed by Mr. Paul Manship for the Circle of Friends 
of the Medallion, Mr. Charles De Kay, President, com¬ 
memorating the Commercial Tercentenary of New York, 
and it was voted that the medallion be officially recognized 
as a memorial of the celebration. 

Commercial Pageants Committee 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com- • 
mittee, recapitulated the work of the committee dur¬ 
ing the eight weeks since it was appointed, stating 
that the results accomplished in that short time had 
been achieved by the fine “ team work ” of all the 
committee. He spoke particularly of the work of Mr. 
Joseph L. Delafield, who has organized the patriotic 
division of the parade for October 31, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
MacKinnon, and Mr. De Cernea — the latter the Director 
of Pageants. He said that in the parade of October 31 
there would be 129 commercial, industrial, historical and 
educational floats, including those from out of town, 152 
fancily decorated automobiles and 180 decorated wagons,— 
a total of 461; and 50 equestrians, 79 heavy harness show 
horses, a division of 3000 letter carriers, and a division of 
1600 representatives of patriotic and historical societies. 
He spoke of the need of funds for some historical floats 
to be built at the expense of the Commission, but no funds 
being at present available, no action was taken. 


386 


Minutes of Trustees 


Mr. Elmer Thompson, by request, reported progress on 
the automobile parade for October 28, stating that there 
were 2000 promised entries and there might possibly be 
2000 more. 

Protest from Musical Union 

The Secretary laid before the Board a letter dated Oc¬ 
tober 12, 1914, from Mr. D. Edward Porter, President of 
of the Musical Mutual Protective Union, No. 210 East 86th 
street, New York, to Gov. Glynn, protesting against the 
Commission’s hiring for its parades government, institu¬ 
tional, letter carriers’, firemen’s and similar bands, and 
asking the Governor to recommend to the Commission that 
it employ none but members of the American Federation of 
Musicians. 

Referred to the Committee on Commercial Pageants and 
Music Festivals. 

Authority to Invite Mayors 

Following Mr. Ames’ report concerning the attendance 
of certain Mayors with the out-of-town floats in the parade 
of October 31, and Mr. Ritter’s reference to inviting the 
Mayor of Havana in connection with the commercial ex¬ 
hibits, it was voted that the executive officers of the Com¬ 
mission be authorized to invite such Mayors as in their 
discretion they deemed wise to be the guests of the Com¬ 
mission. 

Flag and Poster Committee 

Mr. Ames, as Chairman of the Flag and Poster Com¬ 
mittee, reported that the $500 appropriated to that com¬ 
mittee had been expended as follows: For poster design, 
$250; for printing 5,000 window cards bearing the poster 
design (a sample of which he exhibited), $200; for dis¬ 
tributing window cards, $35 — a total of $485. • 


Illuminations Committee 

Mr. Norman, for Mr. Williams, reported that the poles 
and wires for the street illuminations were being erected, 
about half of them being already in place. 


3«7 


October 14, 1914 

Local Festivals Committee 

Mr. Lee reported that the Local Festivals Committee was 
actively cooperating with the managers of the Harlem 
Pageant which is to take place on the afternoon of Satur¬ 
day, October 31. 

Medal and Badge Committee 

Dr. Kunz, in the absence of Mr. Drowne, reported that 
the official badges would be ready for subscribers in about 
a week. 

Memorials Committee 

The Secretary reported that Mr. Bridgman had consented 
to accept the chairmanship of the Memorials Committee in 
place of Dr. Hooper, deceased, and would endeavor to secure 
some understanding with the Robert Fulton Memorial 
Watergate Association as to the relations of this Commis¬ 
sion to the Watergate plan, in view of the Comptroller's 
opinion that the Commission could not spend State money 
on the revision of the Watergate plans as proposed. (See 
pages 141-143. 156-160, 209, 299, 300.) 


Museum Exhibits Committee 

Dr. Kunz, as Chairman of the Museum Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee, reported that the committee was arranging for the 
distribution of 500 copies of a special edition of the “ His¬ 
torical Guide to the City of New York,” published by the 
City History Club, revised to date, with many illustrations. 

Music Festivals Committee 

Prof. Fleck reported that the Musical Festivals Com¬ 
mittee had had a meeting during the afternoon preceding the 
Trustees’ meeting and had decided to go ahead with the 
plan of music festivals in the public school auditoriums as 
previously outlined, with slight modifications. The inaug¬ 
ural festival would be in the great hall of the College of 
the City of New York on the evening of October 26; the 
second would be in the municipal theatre in the Washington 
Irving High School; and the others in various school audi¬ 
toriums. Prof. Fleck reported progress in the arrange- 


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ments for soloists. He spoke of the debt of the Commission 
to the Board of Education for its cooperation in furnishing 
the festival centers without expense to the Commission. 

Religious Services Committee 

In the absence of Mr. Crimmins, Chairman of the Re¬ 
ligious Services Committee, Dr. Kunz reported that Rev. 
Mr. Reisner of that committee had engaged the Hippodrome 
for a great central religious meeting on October 25, and 
that arrangements were being made for a large chorus at 
that service. 

Release of Claim by Korbel and Colwell 

Mr. MacKinnon filed with the Secretary a general release 
by Messrs. Edward F. Korbel and Madison W. Colwell 
covering their claim against the Commission referred to 
on page 287. The release is dated October 10, 1914. 

There was a general discussion of miscellaneous matters 
relating to the celebration, after which the meeting ad¬ 
journed. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 


Circular of Information 

(Issued October 15, 1914.) 

On March 27, 1614, the States General of the United 
Netherlands granted a general charter to the people of that 
country, promising to grant an exclusive charter for four 
voyages to anyone who should discover new passages, 
havens, countries or places good for trading. During the 
summer of that year, certain merchants of Amsterdam and 
Hoorn sent out five ships to New Netherland, and upon 
making report to the States General of their discoveries, 
were granted, on October 11, 1614, the exclusive privilege 
of trading to this region for four voyages. This was the 
beginning of the regularly chartered commerce of New 
York. After this trading had continued ten years, the 
Dutch made a permanent settlement in 1624 at what is now 



October 14, 1914 



Albany, and in 1626 New Amsterdam was permanently 
settled on Manhattan Island. Although St. Augustine, Fla., 
and Jamestown, Va., were settled before 1614, they had 
developed no regular commerce prior to that year, so that 
1914 is really the tricentennial of the beginning of the 
regularly chartered commerce of the United States. 

To arrange for the suitable observance of the completion 
of three centuries of American commerce, the late Mavor 
Gaynor of New York in December, 1912, appointed a 
Citizens Committee which was subsequently enlarged and 
became incorporated as the New York Commercial Tercen¬ 
tenary Commission by a special act of the Legislature, 
chapter 313 of the laws of 1913. The Commission consists 
of the persons named in the Charter, the Mayors of all the 
Cities of the State ex-ofhcio, the Presidents of the incor¬ 
porated Villages of the Hudson Valley ex-officio, and such 
persons as may have been or may be associated with them 
by appointment by the Governor of the State or the Mayor 
of the City of New York. 

The charter of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission is almost verbatim like that of the Hudson- 
Fulton Celebration Commission, but the movement itself had 
a different origin. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909 
was purely historical in its conception and execution, every¬ 
thing of a commercial nature being carefully excluded from 
the program. The present celebration was initiated by 
representatives of some of the leading merchants, manu¬ 
facturers and commercial exchanges of New York and dis¬ 
tinctly contemplates emphasizing the commercial and in¬ 
dustrial aspects of American life. 

At the same time, the celebration does not deal exclusively 
with the material side of commerce. At no period in the 
history of the world has the intimate reciprocal relation 
between commerce and industry on the one hand and in¬ 
tellectual activity as represented in the arts, sciences and 
letters, on the other, been so fully recognized as now. A 
strong and active national commerce and a vigorous and 
virile national industry stimulate art, science and literature, 
and these in turn react upon the commercial and industrial 


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life of the Nation. The intellectual and historical sides 
of the anniversary will therefore be duly recognized. 

This celebration in 1914 is emphasized by a contem¬ 
poraneous commercial event of extraordinary importance 
to the Nation, namely, the practical opening of the Panama 
Canal. This achievement connects backward with the 
events being celebrated, and even earlier history, for from 
Columbus to Hudson, the early explorers were trying to 
reach the Orient by sailing westward. When they found 
their way impeded by North and South America, they sought 
a passage through them. Now, after the lapse of centuries, 
the passage which they failed to find we have made at 
Panama. We thus have a period of three hundred years 
of American history sharply defined by two conspicuous 
events — at one end the beginning of the chartered com¬ 
merce of New Netherland which was the forerunner of the 
greater commerce of the Nation; at the other end, the 
opening of the Panama Canal, which is the consummation 
of the hitherto unattained hopes of centuries, and which is 
destined vastly to increase the commerce of the Port of 
New York and the Nation as time goes on. 

Tlie Celebration Begun 

The celebration was begun on March 27, 1914, the 300th 
anniversary of the granting of the first general charter for 
commerce, before alluded to. On the afternoon of that 
day there were exercises at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, 
at the place where ground was broken by President Taft 
on February 22, 1913, for a National Indian Monument. 
The ceremonies included the enactment of a scene repre¬ 
senting the beginning of trading with the Indians, the 
participants being New York State Indians and descendants 
of old Dutch families of New York. The United States 
troops at that post were paraded on the occasion. 

On the evening of March 27, a public meeting was held 
in the Hotel Astor, presided over by Mr. Cornelius Vander¬ 
bilt. Among those who delivered addresses were Mayor 
Mitchel of New York, and Mayor Stevens of Albany. A 
delegation of Indians was present and its spokesman made 
a speech. Organ and vocal music was interspersed. 


October 14, 1914 


39 i 


On March 27, the Official Medal commemorating the tri¬ 
centennial, was struck and examples in silver were pre¬ 
sented to President Wilson through his delegated repre¬ 
sentative and to Mayor Mitchel. Copies of the Official 
Medal may be purchased from the Commission. 

On August 12, a Local Festival was held at the Curtis 
Athletic Field at New Brighton, Staten Island, at which 
historical tableaux were produced, and folk dances and 
songs of all nations were rendered by the school children, 
with the co-operation of the Board of Education and the 
Vacation Playgrounds of Manhattan and Richmond 
Boroughs. 

On August 18 a Local Festival was held at Brooklyn 
Athletic Field at Avenue Iv and East 17th Street, Brooklyn, 
with similar co-operation in that Borough. The celebration 
included athletics, drills, dancing and historical scenes en¬ 
acted in costumes, the latter commemorating particularly 
Brooklyn events. 

On August 19, there was a Local Festival of a similar 
nature in Crotona Field, Bronx Borough. Flere, after a 
musical introduction, tableaux and dances were given illus¬ 
trating the Indian, Dutch, English, Colonial and Modern 
Periods. 

On August 29, a Local Festival on a still more elaborate 
scale was produced in Central Park, Manhattan. This 
occasion was graced by the presence of Governor Glynn and 
prominent municipal officers. This festival took the form 
of a Pageant of Manhattan, and was witnessed by thou¬ 
sands of spectators. Ten floats represented the Indian 
Period, Dutch Period, Early Education, Education of To¬ 
day, Recreation, Tribute of the Nations, Industrial Educa¬ 
tion, Cog Wheel, Band Box, Commerce and Horn of Plenty. 

Events to Come 

The Commission had planned many more events to follow 
but on account of the European war, the military and naval 
parades and some other features have been postponed. The 
following events, however, will be carried out in October 
and November, 1914. 


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Saturday, October 24, 1914 

The Jewish congregations throughout the city have been 
requested to observe this day with special recognition of 
“ God in History.” The request is made by the Commission 
with the same co-operation as that mentioned in the follow¬ 
ing paragraph. 

Sunday, October 25 

Union Religious Service at the Hippodrome at 3 p. m. 
with the co-operation of His Eminence John Cardinal 
Farley of the Roman Catholic Church; the Right Rev. 
David H. Greer, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
Diocese of New York; Rev. Luther B. Wilson, D.D., Bishop 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the Rev. H. Pereira 
Mendes, D.D., Rabbi of the Congregation Shearith Israel, 
and other leading clergymen of all denominations. The 
churches throughout the city have been requested to observe 
this day with special recognition of “ God in History.” 

Monday, October 26 

Inaugural Music Festival in the Great Hall of the College 
of the City of New York at 8 p. m. This and the other 
music festivals hereafter mentioned are with the co-opera¬ 
tion of the Board of Education of the City of New York. 

Tuesday, October 27 

Music festival in the Municipal Theatre in the Washing¬ 
ton Irving High School at Irving Place, 16th and 17th 
streets, Manhattan, at 8 p. m. 

Wednesday, October 28 

Automobile Pageant starting at 7 p. m. from Madison 
avenue and 125th street and proceeding through 125th 
street, Morningside avenue, noth street, Broadway, 59th 
street, 5th avenue, 34th street, and up Broadway to Colum¬ 
bus Circle. Official reviewing stand in front of the New 
York Public Library at Fifth avenue and 42nd street. 

To be followed by a reception to Governor Glynn and 
Mayor Mitchel, Honorary Presidents of the Commission, by 
the Automobile Club of America at their building, No. 247 
West 54th street. 


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393 


Thursday, October 29 

Reception of Official Guests at the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, at 8 p. m. 

Music Festival at Erasmus Hall High School, Flatbush 
avenue, near Church avenue, Brooklyn, at 8 p. m. 

Friday, October 30 

Music Festival at the Commercial High School at Albany 
avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn, at 8 p. m. 

Saturday, October 31 

In afternoon, dedication of cannon in Battery Park by 
City History Club, with co-operation of the Commission. 

In afternoon, historical convention under auspices of 
Lower Wall Street Business Men’s Association at Fraunces’ 
Tavern, with co-operation of the Commission. 

In afternoon, at 2 o’clock, Harlem Pageant, under aus¬ 
pices of Harlem Board of Commerce, with co-operation of 
and participation by the Commission. 

In the evening the Commercial Pageant of the Com¬ 
mission, starting at 7 p. m. from Madison avenue and 125th 
street and proceeding over the same route as that of the 
Automobile Pageant on October 28. The pageant will con¬ 
tain historical, educational, commercial, industrial and 
symbolical floats, patriotic bodies, and other interesting 
features. 

Sunday, November 1 

Music Festival in Public School No. 62, at Hester, Essex 
and Norfolk streets, Manhattan, at 8 p. m. 

Monday, November 2 

Music Festival in the Great Hall of the College of the 
City of New York at 8 p. m. 

Tuesday, November 3 

Music Festival in the Manual Training High School, at 
7th avenue and 5th street, Brooklyn, at 8 p. m. 

Wednesday, November 4 

Music Festival in the Eastern District High School, at 
Marcy avenue and Keap Street, Brooklyn, at 8 p. m. 


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Thursday, November 5 

Music Festival at Public School No. 17, in 47th street, 
west of 8th avenue, at 8 p. m. 

Friday, November 6 

Music Festival at the Morris High School, 166th street, 
Boston Road and Jackson avenue, Bronx, at 8 p. m. 

Saturday, November 7-21 

Opening of the Commercial Exhibits in the Grand Central 
Palace at Lexington avenue and 46th street, to continue 
until November 21. These exhibits will represent Old 
New York and Modern New York, with displays by mer¬ 
chants and manufacturers showing the development of the 
commerce and industry of the City and State as well as the 
country at large. An exhibition of the life, industries and 
arts of the American Indians, with illustrated lectures, will 
be a feature of the Commercial Exhibits. 

On Saturday evening, November 7, at 8 o’clock, there will 
be a Music Festival in the Municipal Theatre in the Wash¬ 
ington Irving High School, at Irving Place, 16th and 17th 
streets. 

Libraries and Museums 

During the week beginning Monday, October 26, the 
New York Public Library will have an exhibit relating to 
the commercial tercentenary, and will be specially illum¬ 
inated ; and exhibits will be held by other libraries and by 
the leading museums at convenient times. 

Illuminations 

During the week beginning Monday, October 26, the 
following streets will be illuminated and adorned by strings 
of incandescent lights and pennants on either side: Central 
Park South (West 59th street) from Columbus Circle to 
Fifth avenue; Fifth avenue from 59th street to 34th street; 
and 34th street from Fifth avenue to Broadway; also, Lex¬ 
ington avenue from 42d street to the Grand Central Palace 
at 46th street; and 46th street from Lexington avenue to 
Broadway. 


October 14, 1914 


395 


OFFICERS OF THE COMMISSION 

Honorary Presidents 

His Excellency the Governor of New York State, 

Martin H. Glynn 

His Honor the Mayor of New York City, 

John Purroy Mitchel 

President 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row, New York 


Vice-Presidents 

1st Presiding, Hon. Alton B. Parker 
2d Presiding, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.U. 


Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL. D. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Edward V. P. Ritter 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail 
Arthur Williams 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 

Directoi* of Pageants 

Albert De Cernea 

Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 


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Chairmen of Standing Committees 


Athletics . 

Auditing . 

Automobile . 

Aviation . 

Commercial Exhibits. 

Commercial Pageants.... 

Contracts . 

Design and Decoration.. 
Educational Institutions 

Executive . 

Flag and Poster. 

Historical Meetings. 

Illuminations. 

Law and Legislation. 

Local Festivals. 

Medal and Badge. 

Memorials . 

Museum Exhibits. 

Music Festivals. 

Naval Events. 

Netherlands . 

Nominations . 

Panama Canal. 

Peace Centennial. 

Plan and Scope. 

Publicity . 

Reception . 

Religious Meetings. 

Reviewing Stand. 

Street Parades. 


Vacant 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Elmer Thompson 

John E. Sloane 

Edward P. V. Ritter 

Louis Annin Ames 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Charles R. Lamb 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Hon. Herman Ridder 

Louis Annin Ames 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Arthur Williams 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

Henry L. Bogert, Vice-Chn. 

William J. Lee 

E. W. Stitt, Ph. D., Vice-Chn. 

Henry Russell Drowne 

Herbert L. Bridgman 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Hon. R. A. C. Smith 

Com. F. B. Dalzell, Vice-Chn. 

Henry L. Bogert 

Vacant 

Hon. Theodore P. Shouts 
Vacant 

Gen. Howard Carroll 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Samuel W. Fairchild 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Rev. Christian F. Reisner, D.D., 
Vice-Chn. 

Vacant 

Gen. George R. Dyer 
































Minutes of 


Trustees’ Meeting 

October 21, 1914 

The thirty-third meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
assembly room of the Automobile Club of America, at No. 
247 West 54th Street, New York City, on Wednesday, 
October 21, 1914, at 8 p. m. 


Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George F. Kunz, Presiding Vice-President, 
in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Chancellor Elmer Ells¬ 
worth Brown, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Prof. Henry T. 
Fleck, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, 
Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. Charles R. 
Lamb, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
William C. Muschenheim, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Mr. E. P. 
V. Ritter, Mr. Charles E. Spratt and Mr. Arthur Williams 
(by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Mr. August Belmont, Mr. Union N. Bethell, Hon. 
Jacob A. Cantor, Gen. Howard Carroll, Hon. John D. Crim- 
mins, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. 
Charles E. Reid, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. 
Schiff, Dr. Edward W. Stitt and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and 
they were excused. 


Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the Trustees meeting held October 14, 
1914, were read and approved. 

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Treasurer’s Report 

The report of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
was presented by the accountant, Mr. John J. Baird, as fol¬ 
lows : 

New York, October 21, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
C ommission: 

Gentlemen: An behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on October 20, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation on account, 

Subscriptions direct. 

Subscriptions Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Oct. 14, Oct. 14 to 

1Q14 Oct. 20 Total 

$43,251 44 $43,251 44 

1,875 00 1,87s 00 

4.565 00 4,565 00 

488 10 488 10 

61 00 $3 00 64 00 


$50,240 54 $3 00 $50,243 54 


Estimates Appropria- 
approved tion 


DISBURSEMENTS 

Classification 


$7,500 

10,000 

Commercial exhibits. 

$ 3,725 

75 


1,500 

Commercial exhibits, In- 





dian exhibit. 

C/1 

O 

O 

00 

5,625 

5,625 

Commercial exhibits, Di- 





rector of. 

5,625 

00 

14,425 

14,425 

Commercial pageants, 





general. 

8,531 

95 


5,000 

Commercial pageants, 





street parades. 



4,858 

5,000 

Commercial pageants, auto- 





mobile parade. 

x ,474 

26 


4,000 

Commercial pageants, 





guarantee auto prizes. . . 

. 

. . • 

500 

500 

Flag and poster. 

250 

00 

5,000 

5,000 

Headquarters, general. 

3,753 

97 

4,000 

4,000 

Headquarters, Secretary’s 





salary. 

0 

5 

0 

00 

9,500 

10,000 

Illuminations. 



10,950 

10,950 

Local festivals. 

9,730 

03 

640 

800 

Medal and badge. 

526 

25 

552 

552 

Medals and badges pur- 





chased. 

461 

50 


5,000 

Memorials. 



2,500 

2,500 

Museum exhibits. 

8 

50 

4,900 

4,900 

Music festivals. 

15 

00 


200 

Panama Canal. 



2,400 

2,400 

Publicity. 

453 

80 

1,500 

1,500 

Religious meetings. 



643 50 

1,000 

Ways and Means. 

671 

86 


$ 95,352 


$ 39,727 

87 


500 00 


475 49 


25 00 


54 00 


15 00 
85 45 


$ 3,725 

75 

1,000 

00 

5,625 

00 

9,007 

44 

1,990 

26 

250 

00 

3,778 

97 

4,000 

00 

9,784 

03 

526 

25 

461 

50 

8 

50 

30 

00 

539 

25 


671 86 


$1,670 94 $41,398 81 


Balance in bank, October 20, 1914, $8,844 73 - 

FUNDS AS AT OCTOBER 20, 1914 


State appropriation — balance. 
In bank. 


$56,748 56 
8,844 73 

$ 65,593 29 




























































































October 21, 1914 

LIABILITIES ACCRUED AT OCTOBER 20, 
Ways & Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. 

Headquarters 

Accountant’s services . 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 

Remington Typewriter Co., rent of machine and 

table . 

Kennedy Circular Advertising Co., multigraphing. 

W. J. Hardwicke, stenographer, salary. 

John J. Baird, rubber stamp, carfares, etc. 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. 

Local Festivals 

H. J. Silverman, expressage, carfare and other 

disbursements ... 

M. Eliscu, expressage, carfare and other disburse¬ 
ments . 

M. A. Jones and twenty-four school principals, 

costumes, fares, etc. 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements, etc. 

William J. Lee, pay roll. 

A. Haubold & Son, insurance on floats. 

Hebrew Orphan Asylum, music. 

Dieges & Clust, cut of badge. 

Charles Broadway Rouss, material for costumes.. 
Publicity 

A. E. Mackinnon, pay roll. 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 

Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing.... 

Multigraphing Letters Co., printing. 

H. T. Fleck, pay roll. 

Commercial Exhibits 

For expenses under contract with Tidewater Stand¬ 
ard Co. 

Commercial Exhibits, Indian Exhibit 

Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, expenses procuring Indians. 
Music Festivals 

Henry T. Fleck, pay roll. 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. 

Illuminations 

Tucker Electrical Construction Co. 

Edward B. Stott & Co. 

Medal & Badge 

The Argus Co., 750 circulars re. Official Badge... 

Auto 

Commercial Pageants Pageant Parade 

Louis Annin Ames, tele¬ 
phone, carfares, etc. $5 10 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll, 

office and solicitors. 196 00 

Albert De Cernea, director, 

salary and disbursements. 125 62 
Louis Annin Ames, pay roll, 
overtime and supper money 6 00 


399 


1914 

$182 40 
10 05 

270 00 
30 00 

3 50 

9 00 
26 66 
8 05 
38 55 


90 00 
8 70 

344 42 

50 00 

51 00 

19 66 
10 00 

2 25 
7 89 

33 00 
150 00 

20 00 

3 00 
85 00 


5,000 00 

500 00 

15 00 
8 75 

2,170 00 
741 66 

30 00 





























400 


Minutes of Trustees 


Auto 


Commercial Pageants 

Pageant 

Parade 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll.. 
Automobile Club of Amer- 


$361 50 

ica, postage and telephone. 

Annin & Co . 

Brause Desk Co., renting 


135 45 

$2 50 


typewriter, desk and chair. 
Commercial Despatch Ad- 

17 00 


dressing and Delivery Co. 
Daub Storage Warehouse & 
Van Co., hauling load to 

168 25 


Grand Central Palace. 

Fuller Electric Co., installing 


7 00 

temporary lights . 

Great Bear Spring Co., 

5 20 


drinking water . 

2 50 


Knickerbocker Ice Co., ice. 
Landsberg Bros., pins and 

1 00 


cards . 

1 10 


Multigraph - Peerless Letter 


* 

Co., letters multigraphed.. 
Multigraphing Letters Co., 


4 00 

multigraphing 100 copies. . 
The Oliver Typewriter Co., 


13 95 

record ribbons. 

Peerless Towel Supply Co., 

3 75 


towel service . 

Polhemus Printing Co., 

cards, invitations and en- 

1 15 


velopes . 

Polhemus Printing Co., sta- 


92 25 

tionery and office supplies. 
Strauss & Co., Inc., cards 

24 90 


(notices) . 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & 


14 55 

Crawford, stationery. 

Corbett & Co., rigging ban- 

215 75 

169 75 

ner, etc. 


65 00 

Religious Services 

$775 82 

$863 45 


De La Mare, printing and postage. 

1,400 envelopes . 

Evangelistic Committee of N. Y. City, addressing 

and mailing envelopes. 

Dr. Christian F. Reisner, postage. 

John E. Weiss, 30,250 cards, Religious Celebration. 
Commercial Pageant, Automobile Committee 

Annin & Co., lettered bannerettes and pennants... 


$1,639 27 

5i 50 
1 50 

4 98 
30 00 
28 50 

6 50 


$11,680 79 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 






















October 21, 1914 


401 


Check for Advertisement 

The Secretary asked instructions as to the disposition of 
a check for $45 from the Eaves Costume Co., made payable 
to the Commission, and delivered by the company to the 
Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., for a quarter page ad¬ 
vertisement in the Official Program, which is to be pub¬ 
lished by the Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., with the 
approval of the Commission. The check had been left with 
the Secretary October 15, by Mr. Walter L. Hopkins, rep¬ 
resenting the printers, with the request that it either be en¬ 
dorsed to the printer, or accepted by the Commission on ac¬ 
count of royalties expected on the program. 

On motion of Mr. MacKinnon it was voted that Mr. 
Baird be requested to return the check to the Eaves Costume 
Co., with an explanation of the relation of the Commission 
to the program and ask them to issue a new check to the 
printers. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the auditing committee. 


Headquarters 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. $30 00 

W. J. Hardwicke, stenographer’s salary. 26 66 

John J. Baird, rubber stamp, carfares, etc. 8 05 

Local Festivals 

William J. Lee, pay roll. 51 00 

A. Haubold & Son, insurance on floats. 19 66 

Hebrew Orphan Asylum, music.. 10 00 

Publicity 

A. E. MacKinnon, pay roll. 33 00 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 150 00 

H. T. Fleck, pay roll. 85 00 

Music Festivals 

H. T. Fleck, pay roll. 15 00 

Illuminations 

Tucker Electrical Construction Co. 2,170 00 

Edward B. Stott & Co. 74 1 66 

Commercial Pageants 

Louis Annin Ames, telephone, carfares, etc. . 5 10 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll, office and solicitors.. 196 00 















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Commercial Pageants (continued) 

Albert De Cernea, Director’s salary and disburse¬ 
ments .. $125 62 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll, overtime and supper 

money . 6 00 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 361 So 

Automobile Club of America, postage and telephone 135 45 

Religious Meetings 

Dr. Christian F. Reisner, postage. 30 00 


$4,199 70 


Commercial Exhibits Special Fund 

Referring to the action of the Trustees on October 7 
(page 363), referring to the Secretary and Mr. A. Milton 
Napier questions concerning the depository of the special 
fund for the Commercial Exhibits and the drawing of 
checks, the Secretary reported the following resolutions, 
with the approval of Mr. Napier and Col. Sackett, and 
moved their adoption: 

Resolved, That the account for the receipt and disburse¬ 
ment of funds pursuant to the contract of September 2, 
1914, between the Tidewater Standard Co. and the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission be kept in the 
Century Bank of New York, at 3d avenue and 47th street, 
in the name of “ Tercentenary Exhibition Fund,'’ the checks 
against this account to be signed by A. Milton Napier, on 
behalf of the Tidewater Standard Co., and Henry W. 
Sackett on behalf of the New York Commercial Tercen¬ 
tenary Commission as Vice-President 'thereof. 

Resolved, That Henry W. Sackett as Vice-President be 
and he is hereby authorized to sign checks against said ac¬ 
count in behalf of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission upon the presentation of vouchers, approved 
by A. Milton Napier, as President of the Tidewater Stand¬ 
ard Co., Edward P. V. Ritter, as Chairman of the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibits Committee of this Commission and John J. 
Baird as Accountant of this Commission. 

Carried. 


Contract Approved 

A contract supplementary to the contract made September 
2, 1914, with the Tidewater Standard Co., for the manage¬ 
ment of the Commercial Exhibits, not affecting its substance 









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but providing a more facile way of handling the special 
fund above referred to, was approved, it having been pre¬ 
viously approved by the Contracts Committee, Mr. Napier 
and Mr. Phillips. 

Estimates Approved 

An estimate of expenses covering the apportionment of 
$1,500 for the Religious Services Committee was approved. 

An estimate of expenses covering the $1,000 apportioned 
October 6 and the $2,550 apportioned October 14 to the 
Commercial Pageants Committee, was approved. 

An estimate covering the $5,000 originally apportioned for 
Street Parades and on October 14 placed under the Com¬ 
mercial Pageants Committee, was approved. 

City Appropriation 

Mr. Ames reported that the Board of Estimate and Ap¬ 
portionment was expected to concur in the action of the 
Board of Aldermen on October 13, appropriating $10,000 
for the purposes of the celebration. 


Public Letting Suspended 

Mr. Lee reported that on October 20 the Board of Aider- 
men had passed the following resolution: 

“ Resolved, That in pursuance of the provisions of section 
419 of the Greater New York Charter, the special joint 
committee of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and 
the Board of Aldermen be and it is hereby authorized and 
empowered to enter into contract, without public letting, for 
services and supplies in connection with participation by the 
City of New York in the completion of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Celebration to be held in the City 
of New York during the week of October 25th and 31st, 
1914, inclusive, to an amount not to exceed the sum of ten 
thousand dollars ($10,000) ; all expenses to be checked in 
advance by the Department of Finance.” 

Aldermanic Committee 

The Secretary reported that on October 20, the Com¬ 
mittee on Rules of the Board of Aldermen, reported to that 


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Board recommending that Aldermen Frank J. Dotzler,. 
Jesse D. Moore and John F. McCourt be appointed to act 
with an equal number of members of the Board of Esti¬ 
mate and Apportionment, as a joint committee to supervise 
the expenditure of the city appropriation for the celebration, 
and that the report had been accepted. 

Mr. Ames moved that the special committee of this Com¬ 
mission, appointed at the last meeting to confer with the 
joint committee of the Board of Aldermen and Board of 
Estimate, be authorized to act on behalf of this Board of 
Trustees in arranging the details of the expenditure of the 
money appropriated by the city. Carried. 


Ordinance Concerning Advertisements Suspended 

Mr. Ames, referring to the city ordinance which forbids 
the display of advertising trucks, etc., in parades, reported 
that on October 20, the Board of Aldermen had passed the 
following resolution: 

“ Resolved, That the operation of the provisions of sec¬ 
tion 41, chapter 2, part 2, of the Code of Ordinances of the 
City of New York, relating to advertising trucks, vans and 
wagons, be and the same are hereby suspended in so far as 
they may apply to the pageant to be held on some day during 
the period between October 26 and November 5, 1914, under 
the auspices of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission.” 


New Members of the Commission 

The Secretary reported that under date of October 20, 
upon recommendation of the Trustees, the Mayor had ap¬ 
pointed Rev. Frank O. Hall, D.D., and Mr. Frederick 
Sterry, members of the Commission. 

Mr. Ames laid before the Board with his approval the 
recommendation of Mr. Joseph L. Delafield, marshal of the 
patriotic division of the Commercial Pageant, that the fol¬ 
lowing named gentlemen be appointed members of the Com¬ 
mission : 

William M. Chapman, Army and Navy Union, 2140 82d St., 

Brooklyn. 


October 21, 1914 405 

Edward Van Winkle, Holland Society, 90 West street, New 
York City. 

Major William H. Elliott, U. S. Boy Scouts, 52 Beaver 
street, New York City. 

Capt. John H. Cook, Army and Navy Medal of Honor 
Legion, 12 East 22d street, New York City. 

Capt. Albert P. Vredenburgh, Old Guard, 1 Liberty Street, 
New York City. 

Robert A. McLean, 57 Cliff avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Franz Sigel, Sons of Veterans, U. S., Surrogate’s Court, 
Bronx, New York City. 

Sherburne C. Van Tassel, National Association of Naval 
Veterans, 385 Fourth avenue, New York City. 

In view of the brevity of the time before the pageants, it 
was decided to act under the provision of the Commission’s 
charter, which allows it to elect not to exceed fifty members 
of the Commission, and it was voted that the gentlemen 
above named be elected. 

Aviation Committee 

In the absence of Mr. Sloane, Chairman of the Aviation 
Committee, Dr. Kunz said that it was hoped that the mili¬ 
tary corps of aviators would participate in the pageant of 
October 31. 

Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter reported that the Commercial Ex¬ 
hibits Committee’s subcommittee on Historical Exhibit, of 
which Mr. Isaac N. Seligman is chairman, and Mr. Otis 
Fenner Wood is vice-chairman, was arranging for a com¬ 
prehensive exhibit of prints of old New York, which would 
be a very valuable collection. Mr. Napier had consented to 
sign the bond of $16,000 required by the United States 
Government for the loan of its minting plant. A telegram 
from Dr. Dixon reported progress in securing Indians for 
the Indian exhibit; and efforts were being made to secure 
from a gentleman in Philadelphia an exhibition of Indian 
baskets valued at $10,000. 

Mr. Napier reported that the preparation of the Old New 
York buildings was progressing. He urged a concerted 
movement on the part of the Commission to encourage par- 


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ticipation in the exhibits. He asked if he could refer pros¬ 
pective exhibitors to members of the Commission for en¬ 
dorsement and received the general consent of the Trustees 
to do so. 

Other matters relating to the Commercial Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee are mentioned under the following heads: 


Cuban Exhibit 

Mr. Ritter reported that since the last meeting Mr. Mac¬ 
Kinnon had gone to Boston to help secure for the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibits the official Cuban exhibit and band now in that 
city. Mr. Ritter, with the approval of Governor Glynn and 
Mayor Mitchel, had sent cablegrams to the President of 
Cuba and other officials inviting that government to send 
the exhibit and band to New York. The invitation had 
been accepted in the following cablegrams: 

Havana, October 20th. 

Honorable Martin H. Glynn, Governor State of New York, 
Albany, N. Y.: 

I thank you and accept with pleasure the cordial invita¬ 
tion of the State of New York to send Cuban Exhibit and 
band to participate in Tercentenary Celebration of the 
Chartered Commerce of New York. I have instructed 
Cuban Commissioner at Boston to proceed to New York 
and make the necessary arrangements. 

Mario G. Menocal, 

President of Cuba. 

Havana, Oct. 19, 1914. 

General Howard Carroll, President Tercentenary Celebra¬ 
tion of Nezv York City: 

Governor Glynn and Mayor Mitchel’s invitation to Cuba 
to send Cuba’s Boston exhibit and band to New York Ter¬ 
centenary celebration accepted with pleasure. I have in¬ 
structed Cuban Commissioner at Boston to proceed to New 
York and confer with Mayor Mitchel. 

Menocal, 
President of Cuba. 

On October 21, the day of the meeting, Hon. George 
Reno and Dr. Lorenzo Arias y Guerra, the Cuban repre- 


October 21, 1914 407 

sentatives, came to New York and had been in conference 
with the members of the Committee. 

Mr. MacKinnon stated that the participation of the Cuban 
government in the Commercial Exhibits would be at its own 
expense except for the provision of floor space in the Grand 
Central Palace. The space and installation would cost about 
$3,600. 

Mr. Ritter and Mr. Napier both stated to the Trustees 
that this would not be an expense to the Commission, as the 
amount would be raised outside. 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that a committee be appointed to 
assist in financing the Cuban exhibit. Carried. 

The Presiding Vice-President appointed as such a com¬ 
mittee Messrs. Ames, Cooke, MacKinnon, Olcott, Ritter 
and Williams. 

Admission Fee to Commercial Exhibits 

The subject of charging an admission fee to the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibits was then discussed at length. 

Mr. Ames moved that a fee of 50 cents for adults and 25 
cents for children be charged for admission to the Grand 
Central Palace Exhibits as a whole, one half to go to the 
Indian Exhibit, under the arrangement with Dr. Dixon, and 
one half to go to the general Commercial Exhibits under the 
arrangement with the Tidewater Standard Co.; 1 that not to 
exceed 5,000 free tickets for the Commercial Exhibts (not 
including the Indian Exhibit), be issued through the Music 
Festivals Committee for the opening day of the Commercial 
Exhibits; and that exhibitors receive tickets of admission 
to the Commercial Exhibits (not including the Indian Ex¬ 
hibit), of a face value equal to not less than twice and not 
more than four times the value of the floor space taken by 
them respectively. 

Mr. Ritter, as Chairman of the Commercial Exhibits 
Committee and Mr. Napier, as President of the Tidewater 
Standard Co., assented to the motion and it was adopted. 

Commercial Pageants 

Mr. Ames reported that the arrangements for the Auto¬ 
mobile Parade on October 28 were progressing favorably 


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under the auxiliary committee of which Mr. Elmer Thomp¬ 
son was chairman. 

He also reported in detail the arrangements for the Com¬ 
mercial Pageant on October 31, and read a tentative order 
of formation which was approved by the Trustees. 

He spoke of the expense of furnishing characters for the 
floats bought from Baltimore and the floats originally built 
for the Local Festivals Committee, and certain other ex¬ 
penses attached to the adaptation of the Baltimore floats 
and the hauling of the Local Festival floats, which were em¬ 
bodied in the estimate mentioned under the heading of 
Estimates Approved on page 403. 

He also reported the securing of permits from the Com¬ 
missioner of Public Works and the Commissioner of Parks, 
for the erection of reviewing stands, and arrangements with 
the Police Department for permitting and policing the street 
parades. 

The report was discussed at length and was received with 
a vote of thanks for the energetic and efficient work per¬ 
formed by the committee in the short period since its ap¬ 
pointment. 

Additional Apportionments 

In addition to apportionments heretofore made, the fol¬ 
lowing apportionments of funds were voted: 

To the Music Festivals Committee, $45. 

To the Commercial Pageants Committee for automobiles 
for bands in the automobile parade, $180. 

To the Museum Exhibits Committee, for the distribution 
of 840,000 general programs of the celebration in the public 
schools, $800. 

Illuminations 

Mr. Norman reported that the installation of the illu¬ 
minations would be completed on the following Monday. 
The streets illuminated would be 59th Street from Columbus 
Circle to Fifth Avenue; Fifth Avenue from 59th Street to 
34th Street; and 34th Street from Fifth Avenue to Broad¬ 
way. There would also be a line of illuminations through 
Lexington Avenue from 42d Street to the Grand Central 


October 21, 1914 


409 


Palace at 46th Street, and thence through 46th Street to 
Broadway. The illuminations would consist of a line of in¬ 
candescent lights on either side of the street. 

Reception at Metropolitan Museum 

Dr. Ivunz reported that through the courtesy of Hon. 
Robert W. de Forest, President of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, the Trustees of the Museum would hold a 
reception at the Museum on Thursday evening, October 29, 
in honor of the officers and trustees of this Commission and 
their official guests. 

Various Matters 

The Secretary reported briefly on law matters; Mr. Lee 
on the Harlem pageant which is to take place on the after¬ 
noon of October 31; Dr. Kunz on the issue of 500 copies of 
the City History Club guide book; Prof. Fleck on the 
completion of the arrangements for the music festivals; and 
Dr. Reisner on the religious services. 

The meeting then adjourned,' to meet in the library of 
Hon. Herman Ridder, No. 182 William Street, at 1.45 p. m., 
Tuesday, October 27th. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 








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Minutes of 


Trustees’ Meeting 

October 27, 1914 

The thirty-fourth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
libarary of Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182. William 
Street, New York City, on Tuesday, October 27, 1914, at 
1.45 P. M. 

Roll-Call 

Present: The President, Gen. Howard Carroll, pre¬ 
siding; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, Mr. 
Herbert L. Bridgman, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Commodore 
Fred B. Dalzell, Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Cornelius 
G. Kolff, Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. 
Charles R. Lamb, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. William C. 
Muschenheim, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Mr. Charles E. 
Reid, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Col. Flenry W. Sackett, Mr. 
Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mr. John E. Sloane, 
Mr: Charles E. Spratt, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, Mr. Arthur 
Williams (by E. A. Norman) and Mr. Elmer Thompson. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Hon. Jacob 
A. Cantor, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, 
Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. Herman 
Ridder and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of October 21, 1914, were 
read and approved. 

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Treasurer’s Report 

The report of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
was read by the accountant, Mr. John J. Baird, as follows: 

New York, October 27, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercenten¬ 
ary Commission: 

Gentlemen : On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on October 27, 1914: 


RECEIPTS 


State appropriation on account. 

Subscriptions direct. 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Oct. 20, Oct. 20 to 

1914 Oct. 27 Total 

$43,251 44 . 143,251 44 

1,875 00 $350 00 2,225 00 

4,565 00 35 00 4,600 00 

488 10 . 488 10 

64 00 14 00 78 00 


$50,243 54 $399 00 $50,642 54 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Estimates 

Appro- 






approved 

Priation 

Classification 






$500 

Auditing . 





$7,500 00 

10,000 

Commercial exhibits. 

S 3,725 

75 

$2,500 00 

S 6.225 75 


1,500 

Commercial exhibits: In- 







dian exhibit. 

1,000 

00 


1,000 00 

5,625 00 

5,625 

Commercial exhibits: di- 







rector of. 

5,625 

00 


5,625 00 

14,425 00 

14,425 

Commercial pageants, 







general. 

9,007 

44 

332 67 

9,340 11 

5,000 00 

5,000 

Commercial pageants, 







street parades. 





5,038 00 

5,180 

Commercial pageants, 







automobile parade. 

. i ,990 

26 

496 95 

2,487 21 


4,000 

Commercial pageants, 







guarantee auto prize .... 





500 00 

500 

Flag and poster . 

250 

00 


250 00 

5,000 00 

5,ooo 

Headquarters, general . 

3,778 

97 

64 71 

3,843 68 

4,000 00 

4,000 

Headquarters, Secretary’s 







salary. 

4,000 

00 


4,000 00 

9,500 00 

10,000 

Illuminations . 





10,950 00 

10,950 

Local festivals. 

9,784 03 

80 66 

9,864 69 

640 00 

800 

Medal and badge . 

526 

25 


526 25 

552 00 

552 

Medals and badges pur- 







chased. 

461 

50 


461 50 


5,000 

Memorials. 





3,300 00 

T 300 

Museum exhibits. 

8 

50 


8 50 

4,945 00 

4,945 

Music festivals. 

30 

00 

100 00 

130 00 


200 

Panama Canal. 





2,400 00 

2,400 

Publicity. 

539 

25 

183 00 

722 25 

1,500 00 

1,500 

Religious meetings. 



30 00 

30 00 

643 50 

1,000 

Ways and Means. 

671 

86 


671 86 


$ 96,377 


$ 41,398 

81 

S 3,787 99 S45,i86 80 


FUNDS AS AT OCTOBER 27, 1914 

156,748 56 

5,455 74 


$62,204 30 


State appropriation — balance 
In bank. 


























































































October 27, 1914 413 

LIABILITIES ACCRUED AT OCTOBER 27, 1914 


Auditing 

B. M. Schmitt, services as Secretary to Hon. N. 

Taylor Phillips . $100 00 

Commercial Exhibits 

Polhemus Printing Co., envelopes. 3 25 

Contract with Tidewater Standard Co., balance of 
payments . 2,500 00 


Commercial Exhibits, Indian Exhibit 

Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, expenses procuring Indians.. 500 00 




Auto 

Commercial Pageants 

Pageant 

Parade 

Annin & Co., banners, etc... 
Annin & Co., flags, poles, 

$39 75 

$5 50 

tags, etc. 

Brause Desk Co., rent of 


typewriter, chair, etc. 

17 00 


Corbett & Co., rigging banner 
Commercial Despatch Ad¬ 
dressing & Delivery Co., 

168 25 

65 00 

printing . 


Louis Annin Ames, pay roll. 

247 34 


Albert DeCernea, pay roll.. 
The Daub Storage & Ware¬ 
house Co., hauling load to 

126 10 


Grand Central Palace. 

Fuller Electric Co., installing 


7 00 

temporary lights . 

Great Bear Spring Water 

5 20 


Co., water. 

2 50 


Knickerbocker Ice Co., ice.. 
Landsberg Bros., files, pens, 

1 00 


etc. 

Multigraph-Peerless Letter 
Co., multigraphing 200 

2 10 


letters . 

Multigraphing Letters Co., 


4 00 

multigraphing letters .... 
Oliver Typewriter Co., rib- 


13 95 

bons . 

Peerless Towel Supply Co., 

3 75 


towels .... 

Polhemus Printing Co., in- 

1 15 


vitation cards . 

Polhemus Printing Co., 


92 25 

stationery . 

24 90 


Strauss Co., cards (notices) 
Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Craw- 

428 00 

14 55 

ford Co., stationery, etc.. 
Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Craw¬ 
ford, postcards, stationery, 

169 75 

etc. 


Elmer Thompson, pay roll.. 


366 00 


















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Aii to 


Commercial Pageants 

Pageant 

Parade 

W. F. Hamilton, balance 

contract Baltimore floats. 

$2,000 00 


L. A. Ames, overtime and 

supper money. 

52 00 


L. A. Ames, telephone, car- 

fares, etc.*. 

57 65 


Guarantee for prizes. 


$4,000 00 


$3,176 69 

$4,738 00 


Headquarters 

W. J. Hardwick, stenographer. 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 

Kennedy Circular Advertising Co., multigraphing. 
Polhemus Printing Co., stationery and office supplies 

Polhemus Printing Co., envelopes. 

Remington Typewriter Co., re.nt of machine and 

table . 

Smith & Brown, multigraphing. 

Accountant’s services . 

Illuminations 

E. B. Stott Co., Tucker Electrical Co., estimated... 
Local Festivals 

W. J. Lee, pay roll. 

Dieges & Clust, one cut of badge. 

Charles Broadway Rouss, material for costumes... 
A. J. Silverman, express, carfares and other dis¬ 
bursements . 

M. Eliscu, express, carfares and other disbursements 
M. A. Jones and 24 School Principals, costumes, 

fares, etc. 

Eugene C. Gibney, disbursements. 

Medal and Badge 

The Argus Co., printing. 

Museum Exhibits 

Henry I. Cain & Son, invitation cards and envelopes 
J. A. Richard & Staff, Inc., postage and services... 

Dr. Christian F. Reisner, postage. 

De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co., printing... 

M. J. Tobin, printing programs, posters, etc. 

Boyd City Dispatch, delivering programs, etc. 

Music Festivals 

Polhemus Printing Co., stationery. 

Expenses of Inauguration concert at City College. 

Publicity 

A. E. MacKinnon, pay roll. 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 

Multigraphing Letters Co., multigraphing. 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Co., printing.... 
A. E. MacKinnon, disbursements for ribbons. 


$ 7,914 69 

20 00 
30 00 
9 00 
44 00 
4 50 

3 SO 
1 00 
360 00 


9,500 00 


84 00 
2 25 

7 89 

90 00 

8 70 

344 42 
50 00 


30 00 


204 75 
25 00 
23 00 
10 50 
841 74 
179 50 


8 75 
1,081 00 


66 00 
150 00 
3 00 
20 00 
1 60 





























October 27, 1914 415 

Religious Meetings 

J. Silverman, traveling expenses. $17 50 

De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co. 119 21 

Evangelistic Committee of New York, stationery.. 6 48 

New York Hippodrome, rental, celebration Oct. 25. 500 00 

John E. Weiss, cards. 28 50 

E. E. Olcott, payment to Tali Esen Morgan for 

platform, music, etc. 400 00 

Ways and Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. 182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. 10 05 

Contingent Appropriations 

Albert H. Stoddard, salary and disbursements. 7,500 00 


$32,986 18 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


Received and ordered on file. 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 
Auditing Committee 

B. M. Schmitt, services as Secretary to Hon. N. T. 


Phillips . $100 00 

Commercial Pageants 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll. 247 34 

Albert DeCernea, pay roll. 126 10 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 366 00 

L. A. Ames, overtime and supper money. 52 00 

L. A. Ames, telephone, carfares, etc. 57 65 

Headquarters 

W. J. Hardwicke, stenographer. 20 00 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 30 00 

Local Festivals 

W. J. Lee, pay roll. 84 00 

Museum Exhibits 

J. A. Richard & Staff, Inc., postage and service.... 25 00 

Dr. Reisner, postage. 23 00 

Music Festivals 

Expenses of inaugural concert at City College.... 1,081 00 
Publicity 

A. E. MacKinnon, pay roll. 66 00 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 150 00 

Religious Meetings 

J. Silverman, traveling expenses. 17 50 


$ 2,445 59 




























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Apportionments of Funds 

The following apportionments of funds, made during the 
meeting, are here mentioned together for convenience of 
reference. 

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary, it was vote* 4 
that the sum of $10,500 be apportioned to contingent ac¬ 
count, of which $7,500 is to be paid on the judgment in favor 
of A. H. Stoddard, mentioned hereafter, and $3,000 to be 
paid for such other purposes as the trustees may from time 
to time direct. 

Upon request of Mr. Ames and with the consent of Dr. 
Kunz, it was voted that $200 of the apportionment of the 
Museum Exhibits be rescinded and that $200 be added to 
the apportionment of the Commercial Pageants Committee 
for illumination and decoration of the reviewing stand in 
front of the Public Library. 


Law Matters — Payments Authorized 

The Secretary, referring to the suit of A. H. Stoddard 
for salary and disbursements amounting to $14,602.03,* men¬ 
tion on page 310 of the minutes, reported that the case had 
been disposed of as follows: At a conference held on Sep¬ 
tember 25, at the office of the Deputy Attorney General, at 
No. 299 Broadway, between Deputy Attorney General 
Robert P. Beyer, representing the Commission; Frederick 
Durgan, Esq., counsellor at law, representing the plaintiff; 
and Dr. Kunz, Mr. Ames, Mr. Norman, Mr. Hall and Mr. 
Baird, it was agreed to pay Mr. Stoddard’s accrued and un¬ 
paid salary under his contract of December, 1913, amount¬ 
ing to $4,375 ; that his claim for disbursements, prior to 
December 1, 1913, amounting to $1,625, should be waived; 
and that his claim for salary prior to Dec. 1, 1913, amount¬ 
ing to $4,062.50, and for disbursements subsequent to Dec. 
1, 1913, amounting to $4,539.53, should be submitted to an 
impartial referee acceptable to counsel for both sides and 
that both parties would abide by his decision. The referee 
selected was Hon. Josiah T. Marean, ex-justice of the Su¬ 
preme Court and now Official Referee of the Supreme 

♦Erroneously totaled in papers served by Stoddards council at 515,602.03 


October 27, 1914 


417 


Court, before whom the reference was held on Thursday, 
October 22, 1914. Upon the claims in question before the 
referee amounting to $8,602.03, the referee rendered judg¬ 
ment in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $7,750, less the 
Commission’s counterclaim of $250 on an unpaid note of 
Stoddard to Annin & Co., contributed to the Commission 
by Annin & Co., or a net judgment of $7,500. 

It was voted that the Treasurer be authorized to pay the 
above judgment out of the contingent apportionment upon 
the certification of the Attorney General that the defense is 
ended and that the Commission is obligated to pay. 

The Secretary read a letter from Deputy Attorney Gen¬ 
eral Beyer recommending that the bill of A. A. Murphy for 
$135 for photographs (pages 320, 329), be paid. 

It was voted that the bill be paid out of the contingent 
appropriation. 

The Secretary, referring to the twenty-four unpaid bills, 
aggregating about $3,000, contracted by Stoddard, first re¬ 
ferred by the Trustees to the Law Committee and later to 
the Attorney-General, suggested that provision be made for 
promptly determining their merits and disposing of them. 

It was voted that the bills not in suit be recalled from the 
Attorney-General and referred to the Ways and Means 
Committee to investigate and report to the Trustees as soon 
as possible. 

It was voted that claims not in suit, previously referred 
to the Law Committee, be recalled from that committee and 
referred to the Ways and Means Committee to investigate 
and report. 

It was voted that Hon. N. Taylor Phillips be added to the 
Ways and Means Committee. 

City Appropriation 

Mr. Ames reported that the appropriation of $10,000 by 
the Board of Aldermen had been ratified by the Board of 
Estimate on Tuesday and that at a meeting of the joint 
special committees of the Board of Aldermen, Board of 


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Estimate and this Commission, held in the City Hall, Satur¬ 
day, it was agreed that the money should be expended as 


follows: 

For reviewing stands. $ 3 > 75 ° 00 

For watchmen for stands . 270 00 

For printing tickets for stands. 5 ° 00 

For entertaining Cuban representatives. 250 00 

For music. 5>6oo 00 

For contingent expenses. 80 00 


$10,000 00 


Arrangements had been made for two reviewing stands, 
each with a seating capacity of 2,500 — one in front of the 
New York Public Library and one at 59th Street and 
Eighth Avenue. Two thousand tickets were to go to the 
Board of Aldermen, who would provide for the Mayor, 
Board of Estimate, Board of Aldermen, and heads of city 
departments; and 3,000 to the Commission, who would 
provide for the Governor, State officials, Legislature, mem¬ 
bers of the Commission, contributors and exhibitors. Al¬ 
derman Dotzler would arrange for the watchmen — three 
eight-hour shifts of three men each for each of three days 
—Thursday, Friday and Saturday — at $5 a man. The Sec¬ 
retary of this Commission- would attend to the printing of 
the tickets; Mr. MacKinnon to the entertainment of the 
Cuban representatives; and Prof. Fleck to the issuing of 
contracts for the bands. 

Changes in the Commission 

The Secretary reported that he had recently been advised 
of the death of Mr. Robert C. Kammerer, a member of the 
Commission; also that he had been informed by the follow¬ 
ing named gentlemen that they had been appointed on the 
Commission by the Governor: 

John Achelis, 25th street and Madison avenue. 

Roswell D. Tompkins, 154 East 54th street. 

Frank M. Patterson, 66 Liberty street. 

James N. Hatch, Long Island City. 











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Commercial Pageants 

Mr. Ames reported that there were 2,100 entries for the 
Automobile Pageant on Wednesday evening, October 28, 
and that there had been so many entries for the Commercial 
Pageant on Saturday evening, the 31st, that the committee 
was now obliged to decline further applications. He gav.e 
at length the details of the parades and stated that' it would 
probably take the Commercial Pageant four and a half hours 
to pass a given point. He spoke of the desirability of pur¬ 
chasing a title float from the Tidewater Standard Co., which 
could be bought for $800, within his committee's appropria¬ 
tion. 

Dr. Kunz moved that the float be purchased if the Tide¬ 
water Standard Co. would waive all claims against the Com¬ 
mission. 

Mr. A. Milton Napier, who was present, stated that the 
Tidewater Standard Co., had no other claim against the 
Commission. 

Dr. Kunz’s motion was carried. 

It was voted that Mr. Ames be authorized to order badges 
for the judges of the pageants, to be paid for out of the 
apportionment for the Commercial Pageants Committee. 

General Carroll made particular inquiries about the ar¬ 
rangements for marshalling the processions and preserving 
their continuity during the march, and was fully answered 
by Mr. Ames. 

Mr. Ames spoke of various other details of the arrange¬ 
ments, such as the music, the opening of tea rooms in the 
neighborhood of the reviewing stand, etc., showing that all 
phases of the arrangements had been attended to. 

The report was received with the special thanks of the 
Board. 

Mr. Ames moved that the thanks of the^ Board be given 
to Dr. Kunz as Presiding Vice-President, for his patience 
♦and forbearance in the midst of many perplexities of the 
celebration. Carried. 

Claim of Grace F. Thomson 

Mr. Ritter presented a letter dated October 21, 1914, from 
Grace F. Thomson of 523 East 77th Street, stating that 


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last year she was commissioned by the Chambers Publishing 
Co., of which Mr. A. H. Stoddard was President, to write a 
history of New York City; that the work was finished last 
January, and that her bill of $142 remained unpaid. 

It was voted that Miss Thomson’s claim against the Cham¬ 
bers Printing Co. was no obligation of this Commission. 


Religious Service 

In the absence of Mr. Crimmins and Dr. Reisner, Chair¬ 
man and Vice-Chairman of the Religious Services Com¬ 
mittee, Dr. Kunz reported that the union service in the 
Hippodrome on Sunday afternoon, October 25, was a great 
success. The Hippodrome was filled and many people stood 
during the entire service. Mr. Crimmins opened the meet¬ 
ing by introducing the Rev. David J. Burrell, D.D., as 
presiding officer, after which the following program was 
carried out: 

Invocation by Dr. Dickie, formerly pastor of the American 
church in Berlin. 

Chorus, by 1,200 singers under the leadership of Tali Esen 
Morgan. 

Hymn, “America.” 

Scripture reading by Rev. IT. Pereira Mendes, D.D. 

Prayer by Rev. Bishop Luther B. Wilson, D.D. 

Chorus. 

Address by Rev. S. Parks Cadman, D.D. 

Hymn, “ The Guiding Hand.” 

Greetings from Gov. Martin H. Glynn, by Hon. George 
McAneny. 

Address by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. 

Hymn, “ God of Our Fathers.” 

Benediction by Rt. Rev. Charles Burch, D.D. 

The Police Band of seventy players gave a concert from 
2:30 to 3 o’clock. The ushering was under the auspices of 
the Church Ushers Association of New York. A collection 
amounting to $796.30 was taken up for the benefit of Red 
Cross work.* 


* The American National Red Cross, New York State Chapter, 
Jacob H. Schiff, Treasurer, under date of October 29, 1914, ac¬ 
knowledged the receipt of the above mentioned collection for war 
relief. 



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Music Festival 

Dr. Kunz also reported that the opening music festival in 
the Great Hall of the City College on Monday evening, 
October 26, was a great success. The Great Hall was filled 
to its utmost capacity by a cultured and enthusiastic 
audience, and it was reported that 5,000 persons were turned 
away from the doors. The orchestral music was rendered 
by an orchestra of 55 pieces conducted by Leo Schultz 
except the opening number, which was conducted by Prof. 
Henry T. Fleck, Chairman of the Music Festivals Commit¬ 
tee. The program was as follows: 

Vorspiel from Wagner’s “ Meistersinger,” by orchestra. 
Nocturne and Elfentanz (Popper), by Leo Schultz, ’celloist, 
accompanied on the piano by Arthur Bergh. 

Arias from Mozart’s “ Don Giovani,” by Andre de Segurola, 
basso. 

L’Arsienne suite (Bizet) ; by orchestra. 

Aria from Ambroise Thomas’ “ Mignon,” by Bernice de 
Pasquali. 

Piano Concerto in E flat (Liszt), by Albert von Doenhoff. 
Duet, “ Lacidarem ” (Mozart), by Madam Pasquali and 
Signor Segurola. 

Overture to Wagner’s “ Rienzi,” by orchestra. 


Reception at Metropolitan Museum 

Dr. Kunz reported that through the courtesy of Hon. 
Robert W. de Forest, President of the Metropolitan Mu- 
suem of Art, 10,000 invitations had been sent out by the 
museum for a reception in honor of the Trustee of this 
Commission and its official guests at the museum on Thurs¬ 
day evening, October 29. The museum would also issue a 
Tercentenary booklet. 

Commercial Exhibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial Exhibits 
Committee, reported that the Cuban commissioners had 
been in New York three days last week and arrangements 
forwarded for participation in the exhibits at the Grand 
Central Palace. The prospects for the Indian exhibit were 
favorable, and the exhibition of old prints, under the 


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auspices of the sub-committee of which Mr. Isaac N. Selig- 
man is Chairman, promised to be the finest of its kind ever 
held. 

Illuminations 

Mr. Norman reported that the current would be turned on 
that evening along the line of march for the street illumina¬ 
tions described in previous minutes and would continue 
throughout the week. The Lexington Avenue and 46th 
Street lights would be turned on from November 7 to 21. 


Ad Interim Transactions 

On motion of Mr. MacKinnon, it was voted that the 
Executive Committee be empowered to transact any emer¬ 
gency business which might arise between the meetings of 
the Trustees. 

The meeting then adjourned to Wednesday, November 4, 
at 2 p. m. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 


Minutes of 


Trustees’ Meeting 

November 4, 1914 

The thirty-fifth meeting of the Trustees of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in the 
library of Hon. Herman Ridder at No. 182 William Street, 
New York City, on Wednesday, November 4, 1914, at 2 p. m. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George F. Kunz, Presiding Vice-President, 
in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, 
Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Mr. 
Henry Russell Drowne, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Mr. Cornelius Kolff, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, 
Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Hon. N. Taylor 
Phillips, Hon. Herman Ridder, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, and 
Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. William J. 
Amend, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Hon. John D. 
Crimmins, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. Finley, 
Mr. B. J. Greenhut, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. Eben E. 
Olcott, Mr. Charles E. Reid, Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, 
Col. Henry W. Sackett, and Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, and they 
were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of October 27, 1914, were 
read and approved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

On account of the intervention of two holidays and the 
occurrence of two parades and other functions since the last 

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meeting, and the mass of bills presented to the accountant 
during the last two days, the accountant was unable to com¬ 
plete a detailed Treasurer’s report for the present meeting; 
but he made a general statement of resources and estimated 
liabilities, indicating that if no unforeseen contingencies 
arose, the work of the Commission would be finished within 
its resources. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

It was voted that the Treasurer be authorized to pay bills 
for pay-rolls of Committees and for personal disbursements 
of Chairmen without presentation to the Trustees, provided 
the bills came within the appropriations of the committees 
and were duly approved by the Auditing Committee. 

It was voted that the bill of the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art for disbursements in connection with the reception held 
in the Museum on October 28, be approved for payment at 
an amount not to exceed $500, payable out of the appropria¬ 
tion for the Museum Exhibits Committee. 

The accountant read the following list of bills which had 
been found in order, and they were approved for payment 
subject to examination and approval by the Auditing Com¬ 
mittee : 

Commercial Pageants 

Louis Annin Ames, clerks’ overtime and supper 


money . $66 40 

Louis Annin Ames, cash paid Little Riding School, 

$250, and telephone, telegrams, etc. 275 70 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll. 25 00 

Louis Annin Ames, pay roll. 62 00 

Louis Annin Ames, board for Indians and other 

disbursements . 95 10 

Albert DeCernea, salary and disbursements. 139 42 

Local Festivals 

William J. Lee, traveling expenses. n 50 

William J. Lee, pay roll. 141 00 

Commercial Pageants, Auto Parade 

Elmer Thompson, pay roll. 105 42 

Flag and Poster 

P. J. Boylan, delivering window posters. 35 00 

Music Festivals 

Henry T. Fleck, pay roll. 60 00 













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Musical Festivals — Continued 

Henry T. Fleck, pay roll. $70 oo 

Thomas Cherry, doormen for concerts. 20 00 

Museum Exhibits — Reception 

Robert Stafford, Imperial Hotel, hotel expenses of 
guests . 7 70 

Religious Meetings 

E. E. Olcott, amount paid Tali Esen Morgan for 

platform, etc. 400 00 

Frank O. Hall, D. D., traveling expenses. 15 10 

E. E. Fitzgerald, traveling expenses. 4 00 

Dr. G. U. Wenner, traveling expenses. 9 46 

Headquarters 

E. H. Hall, Secretary’s disbursements. 204 65 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 33 70 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accountant’s services.. 405 00 

Contracts 

J. Arensberg, typewriting. 3 77 


$2,189 92 


The bill of $800 of the Tidewater Standard Co., for a 
title float, which was purchased for the parade on October 
31st but which broke down before it reached the starting 
point; also the bills of Mr. William F. Hamilton for services 
under his contract for handling the historical floats on Octo¬ 
ber 31, were temporarily laid on the table, and afterward 
referred to the Chairman of the Commercial Pageants 
Committee and the Chairman of the Contracts Committee 
with power. 

Automobile Pageant 

Mr. Ames, Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee, reported that the Automobile Parade occurred on 
Wednesday evening, October 28, according to program. The 
weather was fair but cool. Hundreds of thousands of people 
thronged the line of march. It was estimated that 800,000 
saw the parade. Gen. Carroll, accompanied by some of 
the Trustees, called for Gov. Glynn and his staff at the 
Democratic Club and escorted them to the Plaza Hotel 
where they joined Mayor Mitchel and a committee of the 
Commission, and proceeded to Fifth Avenue and 125th 
Street. From that point they preceded the procession along 















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the line of march to the reviewing stand at 42nd Street and 
Fifth Avenue. After their arrival, the main part of the 
procession reached the stand about 9 ’.30 p. m., and continued 
passing in review until midnight. Motorcycle policemen 
led the procession and escorted the Governor, Mayor and 
committee. Next came the Motorcycle Division, made up 
of motorcycle clubs and including floats representing the 
evolution of the motorcycle from the Indians of 1614 to 
the “ Indians ” of 1914. This was followed by the Auto¬ 
mobile Division consisting of pleasure cars and decorated 
cars, including early models, grotesque advertising floats, 
dealers’ fleets, commercial cars, decorated commercial cars, 
a section composed of motor vehicles and apparatus from 
the Fire Department, Department of Correction and Police 
Department, and lastly advertising floats. Many of the 
cars and floats were very beautiful and the whole parade 
was extremely interesting. There were over 2,000 motor 
vehicles of all sorts in the procession. A writer in one of 
the daily papers stated that “ it was not only the largest but 
the most brilliant and spectacular demonstration of motor 
vehicles ever seen in the city.” 

Mr. Merle L. Downs, Secretary of the Automobile 
Auxiliary Committee, presented a statement of the ex¬ 
penses of that committee composed of the following items: 
Typewriters $10.50, furniture $14, insurance $25.43, travel¬ 
ing expenses $124.65, postage $250, printing and stationery 
$406.75, incidentals $720.74, pay-rolls $2,362.92, prizes 
$4,564.50, and estimated outstanding bills $50 — a total of 
$8,529.49, being nearly $500 less than the appropriation for 
this committee. 

Reception, at Metropolitan Museum 

Dr. Kunz reported on the reception given by the Metro¬ 
politan Museum of Art on Thursday evening, October 29, 
at the museum in honor of the Officers and Trustees of this 
Commission. From 6:30 to 8 there was a dinner at the 
Ritz Carlton, at which Gen. Carroll, President of the Com¬ 
mission, presided. The others present at dinner were 


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427 


Hon. Robert Adamson, Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. John 
J. Baird, Hon. William Berri, Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, 
Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Mr. Andrew F. Bur¬ 
leigh, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Prof H. W. L. Dana, Hon. 
John D. Crimmins, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Joseph 
L. Delafield, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Mr. Merle L. 
Downs, Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild, Rev. Father Fitzgerald, 
Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Dean Frederick A. Goetze, Mr. E. H. 
Hall, Dr. George F. Kunz, Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, 
Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. E. A. Norman, Rev. Christian 
F. Reisner, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Mr. Theodore Rousseau 
(Secretary to the Mayor), Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, Hon. 
N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, Mr. Jacob 
H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. R. A. C. Smith, 
Mr. Elmer Thompson, Dr. Charles H. Townsend, Hon. 
Cabot Ward, and Mr. Arthur Williams. Brief remarks 
were made by Gen. Carroll, Monsignor Lavelle, Mr. Rous¬ 
seau, Commissioner Adamson and Mr. Ames, and a more 
extended address by Senator Depew. Thence the company 
proceeded to the museum where a reception was held by 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest, President of the Museum, 
assisted by officers of the Commission, and others. 


Commercial Pageant 

Mr. Ames reported on the Commercial Pageant which 
was held on Saturday evening, October 31. The weather 
was clear and mild, and the throngs which lined the route 
of march, which were equal in numbers to those which 
viewed the automobile parade, remained longer on account 
of the more comfortable weather. The procession, of which 
Mr. Ames was Grand Marshal, was headed by Mayor 
Mitchel escorted by a committee of the Commission and a 
score of prominent citizens — “ captains of industry.” 
Among the distinguished persons in the escort of honor 
were Admiral Peary and Gen. Nelson A. Miles, accom¬ 
panied by Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman and Dr. George F. 
Kunz. Gov. Glynn, who also expected to ride at the head 


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of the procession, was prevented by illness. Following 
them came State officials, City officials, invited guests, com¬ 
mercial bodies, patriotic and military organizations, groups 
of college students, the division of 30 historical and sym¬ 
bolical floats, depicting the development of commerce, in¬ 
dustry, art and science since 1614, an equestrian division 
consisting of mounted men and women of riding clubs, the 
Horse Show, consisting of prize horses, and in conclusion 
about 750 commercial floats and other vehicles representing 
business houses. The head of the procession reached the 
reviewing stand at 9.40 and passed continuously until ex¬ 
actly midnight, the reviewing party consisting of Mayor 
Mitchel, Presiding Vice President Kunz, Admiral Peary, 
Gen. Miles, and Mr. Ames as Grand Marshal. The New 
York Times the next morning commented editorially on the 
pageant and called it an “ imposing and well-ordered 
parade.” 

Dr. Kunz quoted Prof. F. R. Hutton as offering his con¬ 
gratulations on the parade and saying that he never saw its 
equal. 

Further comments were made by Messrs. MacKinnon, 
Lee, Hall, Lamb and Kolff. 

Testimonials of Appreciation 

Mr. Hall moved a special vote of thanks to Mr. Ames 
as Chairman of the Commercial Pageants Committee for his 
successful work, accomplished with only about ten weeks 
of preparation and amid unusual difficulties. 

Mr. Lamb spoke of the artistic results and heartily 
seconded the motion, which was carried. 

Mr. MacKinnon hoped that the expression of the Trus¬ 
tees concerning Mr. Ames would not be limited to passing 
a vote of thanks, and he moved that a suitable resolution 
be prepared and presented in engrossed form to Mr. Ames. 
Carried. 

Mr. Ames said he appreciated the action of the Trustees 
and also the courtesy and kindness of the Pageants Com¬ 
mittee and every member of the Commission when called on. 


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429 


He spoke also of the co-operation of the police under the 
direction of Max F. Schmittberger, Chief Inspector of 
Police, and moved that a silver medal be presented to him 
by the Commission. Carried. 

Mr. Ames spoke in a very complimentary way of the 
work of Mr. Albert De Cernea, Director of the Pageant. 
Mr. DeCernea had worked day and night to make the 
pageant a success, and Mr. Ames asked that $500 more than 
the contract price be paid him if possible. 

No action was taken on Mr. Ames’ request, but it was 
permitted to be made a matter of record for future refer¬ 
ence. 

On motion of Mr. Lee, it was voted to give Mr. De Cernea 
the special thanks of the Trustees. 

Mr. Norman moved that the special thanks of the Trus¬ 
tees be voted to Mr. Elmer Thompson, Chairman of the 
Automobile Auxiliary Committee of the Commercial Pag¬ 
eants Committee; Mr. George H. Duck, Vice-Chairman; 
and Mr. Merle L. Downs, Secretary, for their effective 
work in organizing the automobile parade. Carried. 

Mr. Norman also moved that the Trustees express their 
appreciation of the hospitality of the Automobile Club of 
America in allowing the Trustees to meet in its building. 
Carried. 

Dr. Kunz suggested that a lithographed diploma of appre¬ 
ciation be prepared for presentation to various memers of 
the Commission and others who were entitled to the special 
thanks of the Commission. 

Mr. MacKinnon moved that a committee on Resolutions 
be appointed. Carried. 

The Presiding Vice President appointed as such commit¬ 
tee Messrs. MacKinnon, Ames, Bridgman and Hall. 

Commercial Exhibits — Additional Apportionment 

In the absence of Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the 
Commercial Exhibits Committee, Dr. Kunz stated that the 
exhibition in the Grand Central Palace would open at 7.30 
o’clock Saturday evening, November 7, with a private view 


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of the Indians and historical exhibits, the Old New York 
and commercial exhibits, and the United States and Cuban 
government exhibits, which would all be on one floor. The 
public opening would be at 8’clock. The Cuban national 
band would be in attendance throughout the two weeks’ 
exhibition. 

The Secretary reported the subscription of Cruikshank 
& Co., of $100 for the Commercial Exhibits Committee and 
it was voted that the $100 be apportioned to that Committee. 


Illuminations 

In behalf of Mr. Williams, Mr. Norman stated that the 
Illuminations Committee would like an allowance of $290 
more than its appropriation, if available, to meet the unfore¬ 
seen expenses of certain additional illuminations which 
seemed to be necessary but were not originally contem¬ 
plated. 

No additional appropriation was made, but the request 
was permitted to be made a matter of record. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 


Minutes of 


Trustees’ Meeting 

November 13, 1914 

The thirty-sixth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the office of Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, at the Grand Central 
Palace, No. 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City, on 
Friday evening, November 13, 1914, at 8 o’clock. 

Roll-Call 

Present: Dr. George F. Kunz, Presiding Vice-President, 
in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. Hans 
Lagerlof, Mr. Charles R. Lamb, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Col. Henry W. Sackett, and Mr. 
Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

Others present were Mr. Albert De Cernea, Mr. A. Milton 
Napier, and Mr. Merle L. Downs. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Chancellor Elmer E. Brown, Mr. Robert Grier 
Cook, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, Mr. Henry Russell 
Drowne, Dr. John H. Finley, Mr. Charles H. Fuller, Mr. 
Isaac N. Seligman, and Dr. Theo. N. Vail, and they were 
excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the meeting of November 4, 1914, were 
read and approved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

On behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
Mr. John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following 
report. 

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New York, November 13, 1914. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen: On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on November 13, 1914. 


RECEIPTS 

To Oct. 27, Oct. 27 to 

19x4 Nov. 13 Total 

State appropriation on account. $43,251 44 . $43,251 44 

Subscriptions direct. 2,225 00 $250 00 $2,475 00 

Subscriptions, Ways and Means. 4,600 00 900 00 5,500 00 

Subscriptions for medals. 488 10 10 00 498 10 

Subscriptions for badges. 78 00 57 35 135 35 

$50,642 54 $1,217 35 $51,859 89 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Estimates 

Appro- 

\ 





approved 

priation 

Classification 






$500 

Auditing. 


$100 00 

$100 

00 

$7,500 00 

TO,100 

Commercial exhibits. 

$6,225 75 


6,225 

75 


1,500 

Commercial exhibits, In- 







dian exhibit. 

1,000 00 

500 00 

1,500 

00 

5,625 00 

5,625 

Commercial exhibits, di- 







rector of. 

5,625 00 


5,625 

00 

19,425 00 

19,625 

Commercial pageants, 







general. 

9,340 11 

1,412 46 

10,752 

57 

5,038 00 

5,180 

Commercial pageants, 







automobile parade. 

2,487 21 

471 42 

2,958 

63 


4,000 

Commercial pageants, 







guaranteed auto prizes. . 

. 




500 00 

500 

Flag and poster. 

250 00 

35 00 

285 

00 

5,000 00 

5,000 

Headquarters, general. 

3,843 68 

697 12 

4,540 

80 

4,000 00 

4,000 

Headquarters, secretary’s 







salary. 

4,000 00 


4,000 

00 

9,500 00 

10,000 

Illuminations. 


2,911 66 

2,911 

66 

10,950 00 

10,950 

Local festivals. 

9,864 69 

488 57 

10,353 

26 

640 00 

800 

Medal and badge. 

526 25 


526 

25 

595 00 

595 

Medals and badges pur- 







chased. 

461 50 


461 

50 


5 ,ooo 

Memorials. 





3,100 00 

3,100 

Museum exhibits. 

8 50 

37 00 

45 

50 



Museum exhibits, recep- 







tions. 


7 70 

7 

70 

4,945 00 

4,945 

Music festivals. 

130 00 

150 00 

280 

00 


200 

Panama Canal. 





2,400 00 

2,400 

Publicity. 

722 25 

216 00 

938 

25 

1,500 00 

1,500 

Religious meetings. 

30 00 

428 56 

458 

56 

643 50 

1,000 

Ways and Means. 

671 86 


671 

86 

7,631 00 

10,500 

Contingent. 


131 00 

I 3 i 

00 


$107,020 


$45,186 80 $7,586 49 $52,773 

29 


Excess disbursements over receipts at November 13, 1914. *$913 40 


Excess disbursements over receipts at November 13, 1914. * *$913 40 

FUNDS AT NOVEMBER 13, 1914 

State appropriation — balance.. $56,748 56 

Less excess disbursements over receipts as above. *913 40 

$ 55,835 16 


*This excess is apparent and not real as checks for more than that amount which 
have been charged on the books have not been delivered. 






















































































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LIABILITIES ACCRUED AT NOVEMBER 13, 1914 


Commercial Exhibits 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. $3 25 

The Fernery, refreshments to Official Guests. 27 40 

Tercentenary Exhibition Fund, balance of payments under contract 

with Tidewater Standard Co.. 2,500 00 


Commercial Pageants Pageants 

Louis Annin Ames, taxi hire on official 

business... $8 90 

W. F. Hamilton, floats, grooms, etc. 2,495 00 

New York Telephone Co., telephone service 

at 106 Fulton street. 19 54 

W. J. Nicholson, services of Lourde’s Boys’ 

Band. 50 00 

The Plaza Hotel, room, telephone, etc. 5 60 

Annin & Co., pennants, rosettes, badges, etc. 579 70 

Fred Aldridge, decoration of stand, 41st street 

and Fifth ave. 75 00 

Brause Desk Co., rent typewriter, desk, etc. . 17 00 

M. A. Browe, flowers. 25 00 

Nestor H. Brewster, brassards. 15 35 

Commercial Dispatch Addressing & Delivery 

^ Co., printing... 170 00 

Corbett & Co., rigging banners at 54th street. 

The Daub Storage Warehouse & Van Co., 

hauling load to G. C. Palace. 

Fulton Electric Co., installing temporary 

lights. 5 20 

Great Bear Spring Water Co., water. 4 00 

Imperial Auto Touring & Taxicab Co., band 

wagons and touring cars. 85 00 

The Knickerbocker Stable Co., landaus for 

parade. 770 00 

Landsberg Bros., office supplies. 2 10 

The Little Riding School, horses for pageant. 397 00 

Multigraph-Peerless Letter Co., multigraph¬ 
ing..... ; . 

Multigraphing Letters Co., multigraphing. 

The Oliver Typewriter Co., typewriter ribbon. 3 75 

The Peerless Towel Supply Co., towels. 3 29 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing.. 43 26 

The Park View Livery Stable, coach hire.... 120 00 

Tidewater Standard Co., badges.. 101 33 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 427 00 
Nester H. Brewster, brassards. 

N. Lazarnick, photographs. 

E. & A. Proffitt, rosettes. 45 55 


R. C. Rathbone & Son, insurance silver cups. 

Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographs. 

Strauss & Co., signs and sign cards. 

E. G. Soltmann, architect’s supplies........ 


Underwood Typewriter Co., rent of machines. 8 17 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing . 

Louis Annin Ames, telephone calls. 1 70 

The Automobile Club of America, telephone 

calls and stamps. 

Albert De Cernea, salary. 125 00 


M. L. Downs, traveling expenses. 

George W. Keller, distributing posters. 

Henry Romeike, Inc., advertising._. 

The S. S. Corporation, stenographic services. 
Merle L. Downs, salary (final) to November 

11... ... 

Joseph L. Delafield, dictating and mailing 


letters, etc._.. 74 02 

Knickerbocker Ice Co., ice. 3 70 

The Argus Co., printing.. 25 00 

E. A. Norman, meals and auto hire. 23 50 

Albert De Cernea, meals. . .. 2 00 

Automobile Club of America, lunches and 

dinners. 

Tiffany & Co., judges’ badges, silver medals.. 247 95 


Auto 

Parade 


.$65 00 
7 00 


4 00 
13 95 


92 25 


169 75 

85 57 
3 00 

25 43 
18 00 
173 75 
31 00 

144 75 


51 40 

86 85 

19 50 
4 18 
16 50 

75 00 


27 75 































































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Auto 

Commercial Pageants Pageant Parade 

Imperial Auto Touring & Taxicab Co., band 

wagons...... $195 00 

Imperial Auto Touring & Taxicab Co., touring 

car service. 55 oo 

Automobile Club of America, telephone calls, 

messenger service... 20 05 

Tiffany & Co., bronze badges and engraving. 19 70 

George H. Duck, traveling and hotel expenses 

to Detroit and return. 80 80 

Annin & Co., banner, flags and official 

pennants. 166 75 

Annin & Co., badges, stand committee. $5 00 

Tidewater Standard Co., Title float. 800 00 

R. W. Annin, procuring rooms and board for 

Indians. 66 67 


$6,851 28 $1,651 93 


Commercial Pageants , Automobile Parade Prizes 

The Gorham Co. 

Reed & Barton Co. 

Robert Stoll. 

Dieges & Clust. 

Tiffany & Co. 

Tiffany & Co. 

Headquarters 

W. H. Hull & Co., advertising....... 

Kennedy Circular Advertising Co., multigraphing notices..... 

E. Hagaman Hall, New York Telephone Co., telephone service. 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing... 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing... 

Remington Typewriter Co., rent of machine. 

Smith & Brown, typewriting letters. 

The Tribune, rent of Room 809. 

The Western Union Telegraph Co., telegrams. 

F. P. Avery, clerical services and sundry expenses. 

The Argus Co., printing. 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 

Accountant’s services to November 13. 

Illuminations 

Edward B. Stott & Co., balance of contract. 

Tucker Electrical Construction Co., balance of contract. 

Local festivals 

Wm. J. Lee, transporting children to Mt. Morris Park. 

Annin & Co., staffs & poles. 

Dennison Mfg. Co., crepe paper. 

Marceau, photographs... 

The John J. O’Brien Printing Co., printing. 

Royal Typewriter Co., rent of typewriter. 

Charles Broadway Rouss, carpet. 

M. J. Tobin, printing... 

Thomas F. Usher Co., 30 musicians.... 

The Voegelin Costume Co., hire of costumes, wigs, etc. 

James Brown, automobile service. 

Dieges & Clust, cut of badge. 

H. J. Silverman, properties for Local Festivals, car-fares, taxicab service, 

etc. 

Eugene C. Gibney, cartage, carfares, band expenses, etc. 

M. A. Jones & School Principals, costumes, fares, etc. 

M. Eliscu, carfare and other disbursements. 

Frank Schwartz, carfares and other disbursements. 

Robert Hubbard, carfares and other disbursements. 

Ethel V. Alfke, carfares and other disbursements. 

George B. Velte, carfares and other disbursements. 

Isador Bernstein, carfares and other disbursements. 

Medals and Badges 

The Argus Co., printing. 

Tiffany & Co., medals and badges. 


$8,503 21 


776 50 
263 00 
405 00 
370 00 
2,525 00 
225 00 


80 08 

14 25 

32 55 

53 55 

4 50 
3 50 
I 90 

60 OO 
I 31 
41 90 

54 27 

5 OO 
165 00 


4,111 36 
3,371 90 


25 00 
86 

6 45 
10 00 

4 75 

5 50 
10 11 
69 00 

217 00 
62 75 
75 00 
2 25 

90 00 
50 00 
20 45 
5 70 
12 89 
3i 73 

7 56 
12 70 

9 32 


30 00 
175 30 
































































November 13, 1914 435 

Badges Purchased Account 

Tiffany & Co., badges. $38 70 

Museum, Exhibits 

The City History Club of New York, historical guides. 570 00 

De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co., pamphlets. 23 00 

Frank B. Kelley, preparing Tercentenary edition of Historical Guide 

to New York. So 00 

M. J. Tobin, printing... 846 99 

Boyd’s City Dispatch, addressing, delivering, postage of programs. . . 39 82 

Museum Exhibits , Reception Committee 

The Plaza Hotel, sundry refreshments. 50 00 

Ritz Carlton Restaurant, dinner for 42 guests. 436 15 

Henry I. Cain & Sons, invitation cards. 209 65 

Natlus Auto Service Co., taxicab hire. 25 50 

Tiffany & Co., silver medal. 9 00 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, material and labor. 407 22 

Mason Seaman Transportation Co., taxicab service. 42 80 

The Biltmore, supper 45, official guests from Baltimore. no 85 

Boyd’s City Dispatch, delivering programs, circulars, etc. 179 50 

Music Festival 

H. T. Fleck, accompanist, $40, janitorial services, $45 . 85 00 

Ernest C. Mouland, orchestra. 1,620 00 

C. de Macchi, singeis at concert. 700 00 

The Bell Press, printing. 179 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 8 75 

The Bell Press, printing. 178 00 

H. T. Fleck, pay roll. 30 00 

Ernest C. Mouland, orchestra, singers and transportation of in¬ 
struments .. 1,765 00 

H. T. Fleck, conductor, janitorial services, postage, etc. 103 10 

Publicity 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 20 00 

Werdann & Van Schassen, hire of 2 cars. 45 00 

A. E. MacKinnon, ribbon $1.60, pay roll $91. 92 60 

Multigraphing Letters Co., multigraphing. 3 00 

Religious Meetings 

N. Y. Federation of Churches, addressing envelopes, etc. 15 00 

Dr. C. F. Reisner, stamps.. 20 00 

Dr. C. F. Reisner, services of stenographer, $10, sundries, $6.55. 16 55 

Dr. Joseph Silverman, trip to Washington. 17 50 

Annin & Co., badges..... 3 00 

De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co., printing. 119 21 

De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co., pamphlets... 55 00 

Evangelistic Committee of New York, addressing and mailing letters.. 6 48 

Stephen E. Masten, printing tickets. 3 00 

New York Hippodrome, rent of Hippodrome. 500 00 

John E. Weiss, printing cards. 28 50 

Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, telegrams. 185 

Willard & Gene Price, writing pamphlet. 50 00 

Automobile Club of America, luncheons. 9 95 

Ways and Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. 182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. 10 05 

Contingent Appropriations 

Albert H. Stoddard, judgment for salary and disbursement. 7,500 00 

Albert Sestac, in full of all claims for designs. 750 00 

Contingent.. 3 ,000 00 


$44,690 87 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


Received and ordered on file. 


















































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Minutes of Trustees 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were read by name and amount and 
upon motion of Mr. Lamb were approved for payment so 
far as they were within the appropriations made to the 
respective committees and subject to examination and 
approval by the auditing committee: 

Commercial Exhibits 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. $3 25 

The Fernery, refreshments. 27 40 

Commercial Pageants 

Louis Annin Ames, taxi hire. 8 90 

W. F. Hamilton, floats. 2,495 00 

New York Telephone Co., telephone service. 19 54 

W. J. Nicholson, boys’ band. 50 00 

The Plaza Hotel, room, telephone, etc. 5 60 

Annin & Co., pennants, etc. 579 70 

Fred Aldridge, decorating stand. 75 00 

Brause Desk Co., rent of typewriter, etc. 17 00 

M. A. Browe, flowers. 25 00 

Nestor H. Brewster, brassards. 15 35 

Commercial Distpatch Addressing & Del. Co., print¬ 
ing . 170 00 

Corbett & Co., rigging banner. 65 00 

The Daub Storage Warehouse & Van Co., carting. 7 00 

Fulton Electric Co., installing lights. 5 20 

Great Bear Spring Water Co., water. 4 00 

Imperial Auto Touring & Taxicab Co., wagons 

and cars . 85 00 

The Knickerbocker Stable Co., landaus for parade. 770 00 

Landsberg Bros., office supplies. 2 10 

The Little Riding School, horses. 397 00 

Multigraph-Peerless Letter Co., multigraphing... 400 

Multigraphing Letters Co., multigraphing. 13 95 

The Oliver Typewriter Co., ribbons. 3 75 

The Peerless Towel Supply Co., towels. 3 29 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 92 25 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 43 26 

The Park View Livery Stable, coaches. 120 00 

Tidewater Standard Co., badges. 101 33 

Wynkoop,Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 169 75 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 427 00 

Nestor H. Brewster, brassards. 85 57 

N. Lazarnick, photographs. 3 00 

E. & A. Proffitt, rosettes. 45 55 

R. C Rathbone & Sons, insurance silver cups.... 25 43 

Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographs. 18 00 

Strauss Co., signs. 173 75 

E. G. Soltmann, architects’ supplies. 31 00 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rent of machines.... 8 17 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing. 144 75 

Louis Annin Ames, telephone. 1 70 






































November 13, 1914 437 

Commercial Pageants — Continued 

Automobile Club of America, telephone and stamps $51 40 

Albert De Cernea, salary. 125 00 

M. L. Downs, traveling expenses. 86 85 

George W. Keller, distributing posters. 19 50 

Henry Romeike, Inc., advertising. 4 18 

The S. S. Corporation, stenographic services. 16 50 

Merle L. Downs, salary (final) to November 11.... 75 00 

Joseph L. Delafield, mailing letters, etc. 74 02 

Knickerbocker Ice Co., ice. 3 70 

The Argus Co., printing. 25 00 

E. A. Norman, meals and auto hire. 23 50 

Albert De Cernea, meals. 2 00 

Automobile Club of America, lunches and dinners. 27 75 

Tiffany & Co., judges’ badges, silver medals. 247 95 

Imperial Auto Touring & Taxicab Co., band 

wagons .?. 195 00 

Imperial Auto Touring & Taxicab Co., touring 

car service . 55 00 

Automobile Club of America, telephone, messen¬ 
gers, etc. 20 05 

Tiffany & Co., bronze badges and engraving. 19 70 

Geo. H. Duck, traveling and hotel expenses. 80 80 

Annin & Co., banners, flags, official pennants. 166 75 

Annin & Co., badges, Stand Committee. 5 00 

R. W. Annin, procuring rooms and board for 
Indians . 66 67 

Commercial Pageants, Automobile Parade Prizes 

The Gorham Co. 776 50 

Reed & Barton Co. 263 00 

Robert Stoll . 405 00 

Dieges & Clust. 370 00 

Tiffany & Co. 2,525 00 

Tiffany & Co. 225 00 

Headquarters 

W. H. Hull & Co., advertising. 80 08 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. 14 25 

E. Hagaman Hall, N. Y. Telephone Co., service.. 32 55 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 53 55 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 4 5 ° 

Remington Typewriter Co., rent of machine. 3 5 ° 

Smith & Brown, typewriting letters. 1 90 

The Tribune, rent of Room 809. 60 00 

Western Union Telegraph Co., telegrams. 1 31 

F. P. Avery, clerical services and sundry expenses. 41 90 

The Argus Co., printing. 54 27 

F. P. Avery, clerical services. 5 00 

Illuminations 

Edward B. Stott & Co., balance of contract. 4,111 36 

Tucker Electrical Construction Co., balance of 
contract . 3 ) 37 ! 9 ° 







































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Local Festivals 

Wm. J. Lee, transporting children. $25 00 

Annin & Co., staffs and poles. 86 

Dennison Mfg. Co., crepe paper. 6 45 

Marceau, photographs . 10 00 

John J. O’Brien Printing Co., printing. 4 75 

Royal Typewriter Co., rent of typewriter. 5 50 

Chas. Broadway Rouss, carpet. • 10 11 

M. J. Tobin, printing. 69 00 

Thomas F. L'sher Co., thirty musicians. 217 00 

The Voegelin Costume Co., hire of costumes, etc.. 62 75 

James Brown, automobile service. 75 00 

Dieges & Oust, cut of badge. 2 25 

Medals and Badges 

The Argus Co., printing. 30 00 

Tiffany & Co., medals and badges. 175 30 

Badges Purchased Account 

Tiffany & Co. 38 70 

Museum Exhibits 

The City History Club of N. Y., Historical Guides. 570 00 

De La Mare Printing & Pub. Co., pamphlets. 23 00 

Frank B. Kelley, editing Historical Guide of N. Y. 50 00 

M. J. Tobin, printing. 846 99 

Boyd’s City Dispatch, addressing and delivering of 
programs . 39 82 

Museum Exhibits, Reception Committee 

The Plaza Hotel, refreshments. 50 00 

Ritz Carlton Restaurant & Hotel Co., forty-two 

dinners . 436 15 

Henry I. Cain & Son, invitation cards. 209 65 

Natlus Auto Service Co., taxicab-hire. 25 50 

Tiffany & Co., silver medal. 9 00 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, material and labor.. 407 22 

Mason Seaman Transportation Co., taxicab service. 42 80 

The Biltmore, forty-five suppers for Baltimore 

guests . no 85 

Boyd’s City Dispatch, delivering programs and 
circulars . 179 50 

Music Festivals 

H. T. Fleck, accompanist and janitorial services.. 85 00 

Ernest C. Mouland, orchestra. 1,620 00 

C. de Macchi, singers for concert. 700 00 

The Bell Press, printing. 179 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 8 75 

The Bell Press, printing.•. 178 00 

.H. T. Fleck, pay roll... 30 00 

Ernest C. Mouland, orchestra, singers and carting 

of instruments . 1,765 00 

H. T. Fleck, conductor, postage, janitor’s services. 103 10 

Publicity 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing.... 2000 

Wedann & Van Schassen, hire of two cars. 45 00 

A. E. MacKinnon, ribbon and pay roll. 92 60 

Multigraphing Letters Co, multigraphing. 3 00 




































November 13, 1914 439 

Religious Meetings 

N. Federation of Churches, addressing envel¬ 
opes, etc. .. $15 00 

Dr. C. F. Reisner, stamps. 20 oo 

Dr. C. F. Reisner, stenographer and sundries. 16 55 

Dr. Joseph Silverman, trip to Washington. 17 50 

Annin & Co., badges. 3 00 

De La Mare Printing & Pub. Co., printing. 119 21 

De La Mare Printing & Pub. Co., pamphlets. 55 00 

Evangelistic Committee of N. Y., addressing and 

mailing ... ... 648 

Stephen C. Masten, printing tickets. 3 00 

New York Hippodrome, rent. 500 00 

John E. Weiss, printing cards. 28 50 

Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, telegram. 1 85 

Willard and Gene Price, writing pamphlet. 50 00 

Automobile Club of America, luncheons. 9 95 

Contingent Appropriations 

Albert Sestac, designs. 750 00 


$30,293 07 


The bill of the Tidewater Standard Co. for $Soo for a 
title float which broke down en route to the Commercial 
Pageant October 31, not having been reported by the Chair¬ 
men of the Commercial Pageants Committee and the Con¬ 
tracts Committee to whom it has been referred, was not 
acted upon. Mr. Napier, President of the Tidewater 
Standard Co., explained the unusual circumstances of the 
breakdown and also his company’s prospective losses in 
connection with the Commercial Exhibits and Parades said 
he would not sue the Commission for the float bill, but 
would leave it to the Trustees’ sense of fairness. 

With the consent of Mr. Ames it was voted that the bill 
of R. W. Annin for $66.67 for personal oversight of the 
Indians during the period between their arrival for the 
parade of October 31 and their installation in the exhibition 
in Grand Central Palace November 7 be charged to the 
Commercial Pageants appropriation. 

On motion of Mr. MacKinnon it was voted that the 
actual hotel expenses not exceeding $100 of the two Cuban 
Commissioners and the leader of the Cuban band be paid 
out of the appropriation of the Commercial Exhibits Com¬ 
mittee, thus leaving the $250 of the City appropriation for 




















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the Cuban delegates to be devoted to other forms of enter¬ 
tainment for them. 


Changes in Apportionments 

On motion of Mr. Hall it was voted that the apportion¬ 
ments of $5,180 for automobile parade and $4,000 for 
automobile prizes heretofore made to the Commercial 
Pageants Committee be merged into one apportionment of 
$9,180 for the purposes of the automobile parade. 

On motion of Mr. Hall it was voted that the sum of 
$1,000 be apportioned for Headquarters expenses in addi¬ 
tion to the apportionment of $5,000 heretofore made. 

On motion of Mr. Ames it was voted that $395 of the 
appropriation for the Commercial Pageants Committee be 
rescinded, and that an equal amount be added to the appor¬ 
tionment of $10,000 heretofore made for the Illuminations 
Committee. 

Following is a revised list of apportionments including 
the foregoing changes : 


Auditing . 

Commercial Exhibits: General. $10,100 

Director of Commercial Exhibits. 5,625 

Indian Exhibition . 1,500 


Commercial Pageants: General. $14,230 

Street Parades . 5,000 

Automobile Parade . 9,180 


Flag and Poster. 

Headquarters: General Expenses. $6,000 

Secretary . 4,000 


Illuminations . 

Local Festivals . 

Medal and Badge: General. $800 

Subscribed for . 595 


Memorials . 

Museum Exhibits 
Music Festivals .. 
Panama Canal ... 

Publicity . 

Religious Meetings 
Ways and Means 
Contingent . 


$500 


17,225 


28,410 

500 


10,000 

io ,395 

10,950 


i ,395 

5,000 

3,ioo 

4,945 

200 

2,400 

1,500 

1,000 

10,500 


$108,020 
































November 13, 1914 


441 


Settlement of Albert Sestac Suit 

The Secretary read a letter dated November n, 1914, 
from Hon. Robert P. Beyer, Deputy Attorney-General, 
recommending that the offer of the attorney of Albert 
Sestac to settle for the sum of $750 his suit for $1,225 f° r 
artist’s services in designing floats be accepted. 

Mr. Lamb desired to state as a matter of record that no 
designs made by Sestac were submitted to him by Sestac 
or Stoddard for his approval as Chairman of the Committee 
on Design and Decoration. 

After considerable discussion as to the inequity of the 
claim, Col. Sackett said he did not see how the trustees 
could disregard the advice of their official Counsel, the 
Attorney-General, and he moved that the recommendation 
be approved. Carried. 


Commercial Exbibits 

Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, Chairman of the Commercial Ex¬ 
hibits Committee, reported that the Commercial Exhibits 
in the Grand Central Palace were opened with due cere¬ 
mony on the evening of Saturday, November 7. President 
Wilson, in the White House at Washington, pressed an 
electric button which started the machinery of the United 
States Mint exhibit; the Cuban national band played the 
American national anthem and other music, the Indians 
executed certain tribal ceremonies, and Dr. Kunz, as Acting 
President and Mr. Ritter as Chairman of the Committee 
made brief remarks. Mr. Ritter spoke of the generosity 
of Mr. Rodman Wanamaker in co-operating so heartily in 
the production of the Indian exhibit and the decoration of 
the Palace. The picturesque reproductions of old New 
York buildings and the commercial exhibits by the United 
States Government, Cuban Government and New York 
merchants, appeared to interest the public very much. The 
music by the Cuban band of 67 pieces was unusually fine. 

Free tickets had been sent to the members of the Com¬ 
mission and Board of Aldermen, but the general public was 
charged fifty cents admission fee. At the suggestion of Mr. 
Albert Rogers, and with the co-operation of City Superin- 


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tendent of Schools Maxwell, 300,000 tickets were being sent 
to the school children. Each ticket, as printed thereon, 
admits two pupils free when accompanied by an adult who 
pays fifty cents admission. 

The attendance by the general public during the first few 
days of the exhibition had not equalled expectations and 
Mr. Ritter said that his Committee would probably be 
obliged to come to the Trustees for an additional appropria¬ 
tion. 

Testimonials of Appreciation 

Dr. Kunz suggested that official medals be sent to the 
President of Cuba, the Cuban Secretary of Agriculture, 
Commerce and Labor, and the Mayor of Havana; Senor 
Reno and Dr. Arias the Cuban Commissioners; Senor 
Tomas, the leader of the Cuban band; and Gen. Miles and 
Admiral Peary, official guests of the Commission. 

So voted. 


Various Reports 

Various brief reports were presented by Mr. Ames about 
the Commercial Pageants, Mr. Norman about illuminations, 
Mr. MacKinnon about publicity, Mr. Downs about the auto¬ 
mobile parade, Prof. Fleck about the music festivals, 
Dr. Joseph K. Dixon about the Indian exhibition, and Dr. 
Kunz about museum exhibits and receptions. There was 
a protracted discussion by Dr. Kunz and Mr. MacKinnon 
concerning the entertainment of the Cuban Commissioners, 
resulting in the action concerning the division of expenses 
previously recorded, page 439. 


Co-operation of State Commissioner of Education 

The Secretary reported that just before the meeting he 
had received a telegram from Dr. John H. Finley, State 
Commissioner of Education and President of the Univer¬ 
sity of the State of New York, expressing the desire to 
notify the teachers of the State that reprints of the histori¬ 
cal monograph in the Tercentenary Commission’s report to 


November 13, 1914 


443 


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the last Legislature could be had for use in the schools. The 
Secretary added that 5,000 copies of this report, reprinted 
at the Commission’s expense, had been circulated chiefly in 
New York City schools, that the demand for them for edu¬ 
cational purposes continued but could not be met by the 
Commission; and that the co-operation of the State Depart¬ 
ment of Education was most timely. 

The Secretary was requested to assure Dr. Finley of the 
appreciation of his fellow Trustees. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 



















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Minutes of 

Executive Committee 

November 21, 1914 

Pursuant to the resolution of the Board of Trustees 
adopted on October 27, 1914, empowering the Executive 
Committee to transact emergency business which might arise 
between meetings of the Trustees, a meeting of the Execu¬ 
tive Committee was called to be held at the headquarters 
of the Commission on Saturday, November 21, 1914, at 
11 a. m. 

Present: Dr. George Ivunz, Mr. Louis Annin Ames and 
Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall. 


Apportionment for Memorials Rescinded 

The Secretary recalled that the State Comptroller had 
advised the Commission, as heretofore reported (pp. 299- 
300) that the funds of the State could not be used for the 
proposed payment of $5,000 toward the remodeling of the 
plans of the Robert Fulton Memorial Watergate; that the 
approval of the recommendation of the Memorials Commit¬ 
tee (p. 160) had been made “ subject to the securing of 
the necessary moneythat no other funds were available 
for the purpose, and that for those reasons the proposed 
contract with Mr. H. Van Buren Magonigle, the architect, 
had not been executed. 

It was, therefore, voted that the apportionment of $5,000 
made to the Memorials Committee (p. 221) be rescinded. 


Apportionment for Indian Exhibit 

It being stated by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon, in charge of the 
Indian exhibition in the Grand Central Palace, that the sum 


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of $1,179.92 was immediately needed by him to pay the ex¬ 
penses of the Indians who would be sent home at the close 
of the exhibition that evening (Saturday, November 21) it 
was voted that that amount be apportioned to the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibits Committee for the Indian exhibition in addi¬ 
tion to the $1,500 heretofore apportioned; and that Dr. 
Dixon’s bill for the same amount be approved for payment. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 


Minutes of 


Trustees’ Meeting 

November 25, 1914 

The thirty-seventh meeting of the Trustees of the New 
\ ork Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held at 
the headquarters of the Commission, No. 154 Nassau Street, 
Wednesday evening, November 25, 1914, at 8 o’clock. 

Roll Call 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Presiding Vice- 
President, in the chair; Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, Prof. 
Henry T. Fleck, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, 
and Mr. Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Mr. Henry L. 
Bogert, Mr. Henry Russell Drowne, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, 
Mr. Charles E. Reid, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Dr. Edward 
W. Stitt, Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and Hon. William R. 
Willcox, and they were excused. 

Minutes Approved 

The minutes of the Trustees’ meeting of November 13 
and of the Executive Committee meeting of November 2 r, 
1914, were read and approved. 

Treasurer’s Report 

In behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, Mr. 
John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following report: 

New York, November 25, 1914. 

T0 the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen: O11 behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on November 25, 1914. 


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RECEIPTS 


State appropriation, on account 

Subscriptions direct. 

Subscriptions Ways and Means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


To Nov. 13, Nov. 13 to 

1914 Nov. 25 Total 

$43,251 44 $41,652 34 $84,903 78 

2,475 00 . 2,475 00 

5,500 00 5,500 00 

498 10 3 50 501 60 

135 35 2 00 137 35 


$ 51,859 89 $ 41,657 84 $ 93,517 73 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Estimates Appro- 

approved. priation Classification 




$500 00 

Auditing. 

$100 

00 



$100 

00 

$7,500 

00 

10,100 

Commercial exhibits. 

6,225 

75 

$27 40 

6,253 

15 



2,680 

Commercial exhibits, In- 










dian exhibits. 

1,500 

00 

1,179 

92 

2,679 92 

5,625 

00 

5,625 

Commercial exhibits, Di- 










rector of. 

5,625 

00 



5,625 

00 

19,425 

00 

19,230 

Commercial pageants, 










general. 

10,752 

57 

3,237 

63 

13,990 

20 

5,038 

00 

9,180 

Commercial pageants, 










automobile parade. 

2,958 63 

255 

43 

3,214 

06 

500 

00 

500 

Flag and poster. 

285 

00 



285 

00 

5,000 

00 

6,000 

Headquarters, general. 

4,540 

80 

46 90 

4,587 

70 

4,000 

00 

4,000 

Headquarters, Secretary’s 










salary. 

4,000 

00 



4,000 

00 

9,500 

00 

io ,395 

Illuminations. 

2,9x1 

66 



2,911 

66 

10,950 

00 

10,950 

Local festivals. 

10,353 

26 



10,353 

26 

640 

00 

800 

Medal and badge. 

526 

25 



526 

25 

595 

00 

595 

Medals and badges pur- 










chased. 

461 

50 



461 

50 

3,300 

00 

3,100 

Museum exhibits. 

45 

50 



45 

50 




Museum exhibits, recep- 










tions. 

7 

70 

1,004 

22 

1,01X 

92 

4,945 

00 

4,945 

Music festivals. 

280 

00 

4,472 

00 

4,752 

00 



200 

Panama Canal. 







2,400 

00 

2,400 

Publicity. 

938 

25 

92 

60 

1,030 

85 

1,500 

00 

1,500 

Religious meetings. 

458 

56 

120 

90 

579 

46 

643 50 

1,000 

Ways and Means. 

671 

86 



671 

86 

7,631 

00 

10,500 

Contingent. 

131 

00 

8,250 

00 

8,381 

00 



$104,200 


$ 52,773 

29$l8,687 

00 

$71,460 29 


Balance in bank November 25, 1914. $22,057 44 


FUNDS AT NOVEMBER 13, 1914 


State appropriation, balance. $15,096 22 

Balance in bank as above. 22,057 44 

$ 37,153 66 

Liabilities accrued at November 25, 1914. 29,805 79 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 

The report was received and ordered on file. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 


















































































November 25, 1914 


449 


Commercial Exhibits 

Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, cable¬ 
grams and postage. 

Clarence P. Crimmins, insurance on exhibit of 

prints of Old New York. 

The Biltmore, hotel bill of Cuban guests (propor¬ 
tion) . 

Tiffany & Co., medals, badges and cases for Cuban 
guests . 

Commercial Exhibits — Indian Exhibit 

Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, labor 
installing Indian Exhibit in Tercentenary Ex¬ 
hibition . 

Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, electric 
service for Indian Exhibit in Tercentenary Ex¬ 
hibition . 

Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, 512 feet 
Upson board for Indian Exhibit motion picture. 
International Exposition Co., rental of 700 sq. feet 
of platform at 5 cents for Indian Exhibit Lecture 

Room . 

Morgan Bros. Co., installation of Marconi Exhibit 
and Indian Lecture Stand in Tercentenary Ex- 


hibition . 


Auto 

Commercial Pageants 

Annin & Co., telephone 

Pageant 

Parade 

service . 

Atlas Press Clipping Bureau, 

$12 75 


press clipping . 

Joseph K. Dixon, salary of 
10 Indians, week ending 


2 34 

November 6, 1914 . 

The Daub Storage Ware¬ 
house & Van Co., cartage 

56 00 


on furniture . 

New York Letter Carriers 
Band, band for Pageant, 


7 00 

October 31 . 

Tiffany & Co., inset on 

60 00 


medal .. • 

Mercedes Repair Co., repairs 
to auto damaged while 
used as official car by 
Chairman of Auto Parade, 


3 00 

November 28. 

Underwood Typewriter Co., 


55 87 

typewriter rent . 


3 38 


$128 75 $7i 59 

Headquarters 

F. P. Avery, clerical services and messenger service. 
F. P. Avery, clerical services and messenger service. 
F. P. Avery, disbursements, carfares, etc. 


$29 60 
31 60 
100 00 
100 00 

25 00 

59 40 
16 64 

35 00 

72 50 


200 34 

48 80 
40 00 
15 25 





















450 Minutes of Trustees 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. $2 oo 

Polhemus Printing Co., office supplies. 2 oo 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accountant’s services.. 345 00 

Argus Printing Co., envelopes. 12 00 

Local Festivals 

Francis Bannerman, rent of small firearms, etc., 
used at Local Festivals. 8 29 

Publicity 

Chas. M. McDonald, automobile hire October 3.. 16 00 

A. E. MacKinnon, pay roll. 18 00 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford Co., invitation 
cards . 9 75 

Medals and Badges 

Tiffany & Co. 188 55 

Reception 

Tiffany & Co., forty badge boxes. 15 30 

Religious Meetings 

Tali Esen Morgan, for bill of N. Y. Hippodrome for 
labor erecting and removing stand and electric 

current $71.50 and for rent of piano $15. 86 50 

Western Union Telegraph Co., telegrams. 1 24 

Contingent Appropriation 

The Biltmore, hotel bill of Cuban guests (propor¬ 
tion) . 330 29 

Hotel Astor, hotel bill of Cuban guests (propor¬ 
tion) . 106 78 

A. E. MacKinnon, hotel expenses, paid Mr. Tomas, 

leader of Cuban band. 96 00 


$2,011 83 


The following bills, previously referred to the Ways and 
Means Committee for examination and report, were ap¬ 
proved for payment upon the recommendation of that 
Committee: 

H. C. Brown, book of Old New York. $50 00 

Edna Schramm, stenographer. 35 00 

Florence Williams, stenographer. 30 00 

Curtis Walden, telephone operator. 8 00 

H. M. Stokes, office boy. 8 00 

Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Co., printing. 53 00 

Jaques & Co., printing. 219 10 

Walter J. Solomon, office rent, 500 Fifth avenue. 50 00 

Knickerbocker Ice Co., ice. 6 76 

Empire Towel Supply Co., towel supply. 3 00 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing. 3 05 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rentals. 13 00 






























45 i 


November 25, 1914 


Morgan Bros., medal of Old New York. $300 00 

N. Telephone Co., service, 500 Fifth avenue. 50 00 

Bryant Service Co., electric current. 24 66 

Crystal Spring Water Co., water. 7 50 

Hess Bros., auto service. 24 00 

News Printing Co., printing. 25 00 


$910 07 


Commercial Exhibits 

It was voted that the Treasurer be requested to deposit 
in the special Tercentenary Exhibition Fund (see Minutes 
of October 21) the sum of $2,500, being the balance of the 
$7,500 which the Commission agreed to contribute to the 
joint fund in accordance with the contract with the Tide¬ 
water Standard Company. 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. H. J. Wright, dated 
November 25, 1914, concerning the withdrawal of Mr. 
Goebel from the Commercial Exhibits; and it was voted 
that Mr. Ritter be authorized to adjust the matter at an 
expense not to exceed $480. 

It was voted that the Commercial Exhibits Committee be 
authorized to issue diplomas to participants in the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibits whom they deemed worthy of them. 

Unexpended Apportionments Rescinded 

It was voted that all unexpended apportionments be re¬ 
scinded, and that the approval of bills in the future by order 
of the Board of Trustees shall carry with it automatically 
the necessary apportionment. 

No Further Bills to be Incurred 

It was voted that hereafter, no further bills shall be in¬ 
curred, with the exception of the necessary expenses of 
headquarters of the Commission, without the authorization 
of the Trustees. 


Law and Legislation 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Bogert, reporting 
informally that as a member of the Committee on Law and 
Legislation, he had been consulted by Mr. Ritter, Chairman 
of the Commercial Exhibits Committee, concerning various 











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routine matters and sundry small emergency questions and 
Mr. Bogert had given such advice as appeared to him to be 
required without trenching too far upon the prerogatives of 
the Chairman of the Law Committee. Mr. Bogert expressed 
the hope that the Chairman would not feel that the cour¬ 
tesies of the occasion had been transgressed. 

The report was received and Mr. Bogert cordially thanked 
for his helpful co-operation. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS OF THE COMMISSION 


Honorary Presidents 

His Excellency the Governor of New York State, 
Martin H. Glynn 

His Honor the Mayor of New York City, 

John Purroy Mitchel 

► 

President 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park Row, New York 


Vice-Presidents 

1st Presiding, Hon. Alton B. Parker 
2d Presiding, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 


Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 
Edward V. P. Ritter 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore N. Vail, LL. D. 
Arthur Williams 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 


Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 


Headquarters 

The Tribune Building, No. 154 Nassau St., New York 


































































Minutes of 


Trustees’ Meeting 

January 1 2, 1 91 5 

The thirty-eighth meeting of the Trustees of the New 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission was held in 
the library of Hon. Herman Ridder, at No. 182 William 
Street, New York City, on Tuesday, January 12, 1915, at 
2 p. m. 

Roll-Gall 

Present: Dr. George Frederick Kunz, Presiding Vice- 
President, in the chair; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Mr. Edward 
Hagaman Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, Mr. William J. Lee, 
Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter, Dr. Edward W. Stitt, and Mr. 
Arthur Williams (by Mr. E. A. Norman). To complete 
the quorum of ten members, the following proceedings have 
been submitted in writing to Mr. A. E. MacKinnon and 
Mr. Cornelius G. Kolff and approved by them the same as 
if they had been present in person. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Union N. 
Bethell, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Hon. Robert 
W. de Forest, President John H. Finley, Mr. Cornelius J. 
Kolff, Mr. Hans Lagerlof, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Dr. 
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. 
Herman Ridder, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Mr. Jacob H. 
Schiff and Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and they were excused. 

Dr. Finley, in his letter of regret said: “I am sorry 
that I cannot be there to introduce a resolution of thanks 
to those who have directed the celebration.” 

Approval of Minutes 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

[ 455 ] 


456 


Minutes of Trustees 


Treasurer’s Report 

On behalf of Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., Treasurer, 
Mr. John J. Baird, accountant, presented the following 
report: 

New York, January 12, 1915. 

To the Trustees of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission: 

Gentlemen: On behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. 
Morgan & Co., I have the honor to present the following 
report showing the condition of the accounts of the Com¬ 
mission on January 12, 1915. 


RECEIPTS 

To Nov. 25 , 
IQ14 


Nov. 25, 
1914, to 
Jan. 12, 1915 


Total 


State appropriation. 

Subscriptions direct. 

Subscriptions, ways and means 

Subscriptions for medals. 

Subscriptions for badges. 


$84,903 78 $15,096 22 $100,000 00 


2,475 00 . 2,475 00 

5.500 00 . 5,500 00 

501 60 12 00 513 60 

137 35 6 00 143 35 


$ 93,517 73 $I 5 ,U 4 22 $108,631 95 


DISBURSEMENTS 


Committee: 

Auditing. 

Commercial exhibits. 

Commercial exhibits, Indian exhibit. . . . 

Commercial exhibits, Director of. 

Commercial pageants — General. 

Commercial pageants — Automobile pa¬ 
rade . 

Flag and poster. 

Headquarters — General. 

Headquarters — Secretary’s salary . . . 

Illuminations. 

Local festivals. 

Medals and badges. 

Medals and badges purchased. 

Museum exhibits. 

Museum exhibits — Receptions. 

Music festivals. 

Publicity.. 

Religious meetings... 

Ways and means. 

Contingent. 

Total disbursements. 

Total receipts. 

Balance in bank January 12, 1915 


$100 

00 



$100 

00 

6,253 

15 

$2,561 

20 

8,814 

35 

2,679 

92 

208 

54 

2,888 

46 

5,625 

00 



5,625 

00 

13,990 

20 

2,368 

37 

16,358 

57 

3,214 

06 

2,596 

89 

5,8io 

95 

285 

00 



285 

00 

4,587 

70 

770 

96 

5,358 

66 

4,000 

00 



4,000 

00 

2,911 

66 

7,483 

26 

10,394 

92 

10,353 

26 

724 

42 

11,077 

68 

526 

25 

30 

00 

556 

25 

461 

50 . 



461 

50 

45 

50 

1,529 

81 

1,575 

31 

1,011 

92 

466 

45 

1,478 

37 

4,752 

00 

196 

75 

4,948 

75 

1,030 

85 

ill 

75 

1,142 

60 

579 

46 

812 

88 

1,392 

34 

671 

86 



671 

86 

8,381 

00 

1,535 

79 

9,916 

79 


$71,460 29 $21,397 07 $92,857 36 

. 108,631 95 


$ 15,774 59 


LIABILITIES ON JANUARY 12, 1915 


Unpaid Bills Previously Approved 


Auditing 

B. M. Schmitt, salary as Secretary to Chairman of 
Auditing Committee . 


$100 00 























































January 12, 1915 457 

Commercial Pageants — Auto Auxiliary — Prises 

Reed & Barton Co., silverware. $263 00 

Robert Stoll, cups, clocks, watches, fobs, etc.... 405 00 

Tiffany & Co., punch bowls, loving cups and bronze 
statues . 2,525 00 

Commercial Exhibits 

Tercentenary Exhibition Fund, rebate of Gobel rent 350 00 
Headquarters 

Polhemus Printing Co., printing and office supplies. 15 25 

Local Festivals 

Frank Schwartz, costumes and carfares..12 89 

Medals and Badges Purchased 

Tiffany & Co., medals and badges. 188 55 

Publicity Committee 

Miller, publicity writer. 100 00 

Fairchild, addressing . 50 00 

Reception Committee 

Tiffany & Co., medals and badge boxes. 15 30 

Ways and Means 

E. P. V. Ritter, traveling expenses. 182 40 

F. S. Bishop, traveling expenses. 10 05 


$4,217 44 


Unpaid Bills Herewith Submitted for Approval 


Commercial Pageants 

Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing 

booklets . $75 00 

Tidewater Standard Co., Title Float $800, less one- 
half of expense of supplying horses for float 

$31.50 and cost of hauling same $10. 758 50 

Polhemus Printing Co., typewriter paper. 50 

N. Y. Telephone Co., telephone service at 106 

Fulton St. 22 41 

Louis Annin Ames, expenses re McAllaster suit... 4 30 

The Little Riding School, hauling float. 10 00 

Albert DeCernea, additional services as Director 
of Pageantry assisting Chairman of Committee. 375 00 

Commercial Pageants — Automobile Auxiliary 

Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., printing — 
composition on ballot. 8 50 

Commercial Pageants — Auto Auxiliary — Prises 

Tiffany & Co., medals and badges. 492 65 

Tiffany & Co., stamping and engraving medals, etc. 8 00 

Robert Stoll, cups and medals for prizes and en¬ 
graving . 62 26 

Commercial Pageants — Prises 

Tiffany & Co., medals, cases and engraving. 211 55 

Commercial Exhibits 

The World, 1 cut. 12 go 

























458 


Minutes of Trustees 


M. A. Singer, booths and fixtures for Cuban Ex¬ 
hibit .... $15000 

W. P. McKean, services installing exhibit of prints 

at Exhibition . 25 00 

Rudolf Lanper, drawing for diploma. 25 00 

Jaques & Co., printing copies of diplomas. 3 25 

J. Clarence Davies, insurance and cartage on 

pictures exhibited at Exhibition. 154 to 

Nelson Roberts-Girard N. Whitney, medals for 

Cuban Band . 10 50 

Charles E. Spratt, expenses entertaining Cuban 

Committee . 24 90 

Harry M. Stevens, expenses of Trustees’ Meetings, 

November 13 and 21 and of Police Band. 6 50 

Tiffany & Co., gold badge and silver medals pre¬ 
sented to Cuban Official Guests. 100 00 

C. M. Photo Co., photos. 21 00 

Commercial Exhibits — Indian Exhibits 

Eastman Kodak Co., enlarging photographs. 499 80 

Chas. Beseler Co., moving picture machine and 

booth, reels and services of operator... 137 75 

J. A. Perkins, expenses while caring for the Indians 

and publicity work. 62 75 

John Wanamaker, catalogues. 93 90 

Tercentenary Exhibition Fund, Indian Exhibit 
proportion of Exhibition expenses, $1,259.87. De¬ 
duct one-half of box receipts, $1,191.77. 68 10 

Tercentenary Exhibition Fund — Board of Indians. 415 00 

Dr. J. K. Dixon, traveling and hotel expenses, 
telephone, etc., $1,565.14 less paid on account, 

$1,179.92 . 385 22 

Headquarters 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co., multigraphing. 2 00 

F. P. Avery, clerical services to January 8, inclusive. 140 00 
Patterson, Teale & Dennis, services of accountant. 390 00 

E. H. Hall, Secretary, payroll for stenographers, 
postage, telephone, office rent, etc. 408 54 

Medal and Badge Committee 

Tiffany & Co., dies for badges. 168 00 

Reception Committee 

Natlus Auto Service Co., taxi service entertaining 

Cuban guests. 19 00 

Tiffany & Co., stamping medals and cases for same. 25 50 

Contingent Appropriations 

New York Tribune, 100 copies. 5 00 

Charles C. Nichols, Jr., auto hire for press agents. 6 25 


$ 5,387 73 


Respectfully submitted, 

John J. Baird, 

Accountant. 


























January 12, 1915 


459 


Bills Approved for Payment 

The bills above mentioned as submitted for approval were 
approved for payment, subject to examination and approval 
by the Auditing Committee. 

Concessions for Medals, Printing, etc. 

Mr. Baird laid before the Board an accounting by the 
Tidewater Standard Co., of the concessions by the Com¬ 
mission to the Company for the sale, at the Commercial 
Exhibits, of souvenir medals and fobs, and official cata¬ 
logues, in the profits of which the Commission had a 20 
per cent interest. The account for medals and fobs showed 
expenses of $643.32 and receipts of $222.55, making a loss 
of $420.77. The company had on hand 2,411 medals and 
fobs, the best offer for which was one cent apiece. The 
statement indicated that the Commission had no net interest 
in this account. 

The Tidewater Standard Co., did not issue the proposed 
Official Catalogue, as the estimated cost of 100,000 copies 
was $7,375, while the contracts for advertising amounted 
to only $3,540. 

With respect to the Commission’s 5 per cent interest in 
the gross proceeds of the Official Program printed by the 
Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., the latter company 
under date of January 11, 1915, stated that it had not yet 
received reports from news companies and was therefore 
unable to make a report at the present time. 

Suits and Claims 

The Secretary read a report of the condition of all 
suits and claims presented through counsel but not in suit, 
and other questionable claims, determined and undeter¬ 
mined, to date, which was received and ordered on file. 

Official Medals to Cuban Representatives 

The President reported the presentation of Official 
Medals to Gen. Mario G. Menocal, President of the Re¬ 
public of Cuba; Gen. Emilio Nunez, Secretary of Agricul- 


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ture, etc.; Dr. Lorenzo Arias y Guerra, Assistant Secretary 
of Agriculture; Senor George Reno, Chief of Bureau of 
Information; Gen. F. Freyre de Andrada, Mayor of Ha¬ 
vana; and Senor Guillereno M. Tomas, Director of the 
Havana Municipal Band, in recognition of the participation 
of the Cuban Government and the Municipal Band of 
Havana in the Commercial Exhibits at the Grand Central 
Palace (p. 442). The medals were presented to Senor Reno 
and Senor Tomas in person, and Senor Reno transmitted the 
others. The correspondence accompanying the medals was 
as follows: 

November 20, 1914 

To His Excellency 

General Mario G. Menocal, 

President of the Republic of Cuba, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Your Excellency. — The New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission, incorporated by the Legislature to 
celebrate in 1914 the three hundredth anniversary of the 
beginning of the Chartered Commerce of New York, from 
which the commerce of this nation has grown, presents to 
Your Excellency its respectful compliments and begs you 
to accept the accompanying Official Medal as a token of 
sincere friendship and appreciation of the participation of 
the Official Cuban Exhibit and the Havana Municipal Band 
in the Commercial Exhibition held by this Commission from 
November 7 to November 21 in the Grand Central Palace, 
New York. 

The music rendered by the well-trained band has been 
of the highest order and has added greatly to the enjoyment 
of the many thousands of people who have attended the 
Exhibition; and the convincing evidence of the superb 
material resources of Cuba and of the intelligent enter¬ 
prise of the Cuban People which your National Exhibit 
gives, commands our great respect and strengthens our long- 
entertained faith that a benign Providence has destined the 
Cuban Nation to a prosperous and happy future. 

With renewed assurances of our high esteem and appre¬ 
ciation, we remain, in behalf, of the Governor of the State, 
the Mayor of the City, and the people whom they represent. 

Faithfully your friends, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President. 


January 12, 1915 


461 


REPUBLICA DE CUBA 
PRESIDENCIA 

Havana, December 12, 1914. 

Mr. George F. Kunz, 

Acting President, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 
154 Nassau Street, New York. 

Dear Sir. — His Excellency, President Menocal, directs 
me to acknowledge receipt of your favor dated the 20th 
instant and to thank you for the Official Medal sent him 
in commemoration of the New York Commercial Tercen¬ 
tenary. 

Yours very truly, 

E. S. Azpiozo, 

Private Secretary to the President. 

November 20, 1914. 

To the Honorable 

General Emilio Nunez, 

Secretary of Agriculture, etc., 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission presents its respectful compliments and begs you 
to accept the accompanying Official Medal as a token of 
its appreciation of your co-operation in sending the Cuban 
Exhibit to the Commercial Exhibition held by this Com¬ 
mission in the Grand Central Palace, New York, from 
November 7 to November 21, 1914. 

In celebrating three centuries of our own industrial and 
commercial development since the beginning of our Char¬ 
tered Commerce with the Old World in 1614, it is gratifying 
to see in your National Exhibit and to have from other 
sources fresh evidences of the rich material resources of 
your country and of their rapid development by the genius 
of the Cuban people. We believe that the presence of your 
Exhibit in New York has instructed many thousands of 
people who have not heretofore fully realized the potential 
and developed resources of your Nation; and it has served 
to strengthen more than ever the peculiar ties of friendship 
and neighborly interest which bind our peoples together. 

Accept again, Sir, the assurances of our grateful appre¬ 
ciation and of our high respect. 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President. 


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Minutes of Trustees 


EL SECRETARIO DE AGRICULTURA, COMERCIO Y TRABAJO 

Havana, December 10, 1914. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, 

Vice-President New York Tercentenary Commission, 
New York City. 

Sir.— The Official Medal of the Tercentenary Commis¬ 
sion together with your most courteous letter, has been duly 
received, for both of which you will accept my sincere 
thanks. 

It is extremely gratifying to learn that the presence of 
our exhibit in New York City “ has served to strengthen the 
ties of friendship and neighborly interest which bind our 
people together,” and we appreciate the assurance of this 
fact which you have given us. 

Having lived for many years in the United States and 
realizing fully the true significance and import of those 
ties, social, political and economical, which must always 
bind us in bonds of friendship to our great and generous 
Sister Republic, it is easy for me to comprehend the benefits 
which result from Municipal Celebrations such as the Ter¬ 
centenary recently held in your city. And I am more than 
glad that circumstances rendered it possible for this Re¬ 
public to take part, even in a very slight degree, in the 
Third Century Anniversary of the founding of the City 
of New York. 

In conclusion, allow me, in the name of the Republic of 
Cuba, to thank you for the magnificent hospitality shown 
by the Tercentenary Commission to our Commissioners, 
Sres. Lorenzo Arias and George Reno, and for the many 
thoughtful attentions bestowed on them by you personally, 
as reported, during their stay in New York. 

Hoping that every day that passes may cement more 
firmly the ties of mutual respect, esteem and friendship 
between Cuba and the United* States, I remain, 

Most sincerely, 

Emilio Nunez, 

Secretary to Agriculture , 
Commerce and Labor . 

November 20, 1914. 

To the Honorable 

Dr. Lorenzo Arias y Guerra, 

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission presents its compliments and expresses the pleasure 


January 12, 1915 


463 


it will take in your acceptance of the accompanying Official 
Medal as a token of esteem and appreciation of your co¬ 
operation in bringing the Cuban National Exhibit and Band 
to the Commercial Exhibition held under our auspices in 
the Grand Central Palace, New York, from November 7 
to November 21. 

The exhibition of the products of the Cuban soil, shaped 
by Cuban industry under the intelligent direction of Cuban 
minds, has added anew to the testimony of past years con¬ 
cerning the richness of your resources and the high capacity 
of your people to develop them. We trust that your par¬ 
ticipation in our celebration of three centuries of American 
Commerce will serve to increase the commercial intercourse 
of the people of the United States and Cuba to their mutual 
advantage, and to strengthen the already strong ties of 
friendship which unite us. 

We felicitate the Cuban Government on its happy selec¬ 
tion of representatives in charge of the Cuban Exhibit here, 
and beg you to be assured of the great pleasure which our 
personal intercourse with yourself and your colleagues has 
given us. 

Trusting that it may be our privilege to renew these 
pleasant associations in years to come, we remain, 

Sincerely your friends, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President. 

EL SUBSECRETARIO DE AGRICULTURA, COMERCIO Y TRABAJO 

Havana, December 10, 1914. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, 

Vice-President, N. Y. Tercentenary Commission, 

New York City. 

Sir. — The Official Medals of the Tercentenary Commis¬ 
sion, together with the letters accompanying them, were 
today delivered to President Menocal, Secretary Nunez and 
Mayor Andrade. 

It is needless to say that these tokens of esteem and 
friendship were received with gratitude and with due ap¬ 
preciation of the cordial spirit which dictated them. After 
my recent sojourn in your beautiful city, with its seven 
millions of people and its marvelous progress so apparent 
on all sides, it is easier for me to recognize, the full signi¬ 
ficance of our friendly relations with the United States and 
what these relations mean to Cuba. 


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The generous hospitality extended by the Tercentenary 
Commission to Mr. Reno and myself, during our stay in 
your city, we choose to interpret as indicative solely of the 
true American feeling towards our Republic. In such 
spirit we accepted and hope some day to return said hos¬ 
pitality. 

Personally, I can never forget the many attentions so 
courteously bestowed on us, and I want always to think 
of the officials of the Tercentenary Commission as friends, 
as men who represent the country that came to our rescue 
in the dark days of peril and distress. 

With most pleasant recollections of our sojourn in the 
great metropolis of the Western Hemisphere, I remain, 

Most cordially yours, 

Lorenzo Arias, 

Asst. Sec. Agriculture, 
Commerce and Labor. 

November 19, 1914. 

To His Honor 

General F. Freyre de Andrada, 

Mayor of Havana, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission, appointed by His Excellency the Governor of the 
State and His Honor the Mayor of New York to celebrate 
the 300th anniversary of the beginning of Chartered Com¬ 
merce between the Old World and the present United 
States, offers its respectful compliments and begs Your 
Honor to accept the accompanying Official Medal as a 
token of friendship and appreciation of your co-operation 
in sending the Municipal Band of Flavana to accompany 
the Cuban National Exhibit in the Commercial Exhibition 
held under our auspices in the Grand Central Palace, New 
York City, from November 7 to November 21. 

We compliment the City of Havana upon its splendid 
Municipal Band, which in its performance has equalled the 
best organizations in this country similarly constituted. As 
the exhibit of the material resources of your Nation added 
greatly to our instruction, so your superb Municipal Band 
added to the pleasure of the great throngs of visitors to 
the exhibition. 

Remembering that New York is a century younger than 
your venerable City,, we as a junior municipality, again 
salute you and trust that the intermingling of the National 
Airs of Cuba and the United States in the daily concerts 
given by your Band is symbolical of the harmony between 


January 12, 1915 465 

our peoples and the friendly concord which we hope may 
continue unbroken for centuries to come. 

With renewed assurances of our esteem, we remain, 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President. 

ALCALDIA MUNICIPAL DE LA HABANA 

Havana, Cuba, December io, 1914. 
To Mr. George F. Kunz, 

Acting President of the New York Commercial Ter¬ 
centenary Commission, New York. 

Sir. — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of 
your kind letter of November 19 last, as well as the Official 
Medal which the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission has sent me as a token of friendship and appre¬ 
ciation of my co-operation in sending the Municipal Band 
of Havana to accompany the Cuban National Exhibit in 
your Commercial Exhibition held from November 7 to 
November 21, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the 
beginning of Chartered Commerce between the old World 
and the present United States. 

Your compliment shall and will be greatly appreciated 
by the City of Havana as much as it is by myself, and I 
cordially accept your token of friendship hoping that the 
City of New York, the greatest and most progressive city 
in America, will maintain with Havana and the Republic of 
Cuba the friendly concord existing at present, and which 
I trust may continue unbroken for centuries to come. 

With renewed assurances of my most cordial sympathy 
and friendship, I remain, 

Yours sincerely, 

F. Freyre de Andrada. 

Mayor of Havana. 

November 20, 1914. 

To the Honorable 

Senor George Reno, 

Chief of Bureau of Information, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission offers you its compliments and asks you to accept 
the accompanying Official Medal as a token of friendship 
and appreciation of your co-operation in bringing the Cuban 
National Exhibit and Band to the Commercial Exhibition 


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held by this Commission in the Grand Central Palace, New 
York, from November 7 to November 21, 1914. 

The function of your Bureau has been most effectively 
performed in the dissemination of information about Cuba 
which was comparatively unfamiliar to the many thousands 
of our people who attended the exhibition; and we are sure 
that we express their sentiments when we rejoice at the 
evidences of your valuable natural resources and of the 
progressive National spirit revealed in the industry and 
enterprise which are developing them. This testimony of 
present and this augury of future prosperity are most grati¬ 
fying to the people of the United States of whose sincere 
and friendly interest we trust you have had ample assurance. 

Permit us also to express the pleasure which our per¬ 
sonal intercourse with you has given to us, and to enter¬ 
tain the hope that it may be renewed in the near future. 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President. 

November 19, 1914. 

Dr. Guillereno M. Tomas, 

Director of the Havana Municipal Band, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission begs to assure you of the very great pleasure which 
the Havana Municipal Band, under your direction, has 
given to the great throngs of people who have attended the 
Commercial Exhibition held under the Commission’s 
auspices in the Grand Central Palace, New York City, from 
November 7 to November 21, and it asks you to accept 
the accompanying Official Medal as a slight token of its 
appreciation. 

As the National Cuban Exhibit at the exhibition gave 
evidence of the rich material resources of your country and 
the industrial development of your people, so the high 
order of music rendered by the three score and ten trained 
performers under your direction manifested the high at¬ 
tainments of your people in the realm of one of the arts. 
We compliment you on having a band equal to the best 
in the United States similarly constituted, and appreciate 
that the excellence of its performances has been due not 
only to the ability of the individual musicians, but also to 
the skillful and sympathetic direction of their conductor. 


January 12, 1915 


467 


We trust that the harmonies which have sounded in our 
ears during your concerts may find echoing harmonies of 
friendship in our hearts which will continue between our 
peoples for generations to come. 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President. 

The presentation of the foregoing medals was approved. 

Other Official Testimonials 

The President also reported the presentation of Official 
Medals to Major General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., and 
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., who were official 
guests of the Commission and who reviewed the Com¬ 
mercial Pageant on the evening of October 31st (p. 442). 

Also the presentation of complimentary badges to Police 
Lieutenant William Kennell and to Detective Sergeant 
John J. M. Phelan, personal attendants of the Mayor. 

The presentations were approved. 

The Secretary spoke very highly of the services rendered 
by the Commission’s chartered accountant, Mr. John J. 
Baird, and asked approval of the presentation of a medal to 
him for “ faithful and unremitting services as official ac¬ 
countant.” The Secretary said that Mr. Baird’s services had 
been invaluable to the Commission; that he had consented 
to do many things not strictly to be expected of him as 
accountant; that he had worked overtime without extra 
compensation; and with all had been most courteous and 
patient in the midst of his perplexing labors. 

The medal was voted as requested. 


Appreciation of Services of Dr. Kunz 

Dr. Stitt offered the following resolution: 

Whereas, Dr. George F. Kunz has been the active Chair¬ 
man of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commis¬ 
sion and by his conscientious service, unbounded enthusiasm 
and real efficiency has contributed largely to the success of 
the celebration; therefore 

Be it resolved, That the Trustees and members of the 
Commission extend to Dr. Kunz their sincere appreciation 
of his valued and unselfish services. 


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Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 
be spread in full upon the minutes of the Commission; and 
that another copy, properly attested, be sent to Dr. Kunz. 

Adopted. 

Settlements and Disbursements Authorized 

The Secretary offered the following resolution to facili¬ 
tate the closing up of the affairs of the Commission, stating 
that it was similar to one adopted by the Trustees of the 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission on May 9, 1910, 
except the provision for the disposal of physical property. 
The physical property of this Commission is very small 
compared with that of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com¬ 
mission at the close of its celebration and can readily be 
attended to by a small committee: 

Resolved, that after January 12, 1915, the President, one 
of the Presiding Vice-Presidents, Vice-President Henry W. 
Sackett, the Chairman of the Auditing Committee, and the 
Secretary, or a majority of them, be and they hereby are 
authorized to dispose of any physical property of the Com¬ 
mission and effect such settlements and make such expendi¬ 
tures not exceeding the resources of the Commission as in 
the discretion and judgment of said officers may be deemed 
wise and necessary for the conclusion of the unfinished 
affairs of the Commission; and the Treasurer is hereby 
authorized to pay accounts authorized as aforesaid after 
the further approval of the Auditing Committee. 

Adopted. 

The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the 
chair. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 


Minutes of 

Commission Meeting 

March 12, 1915 

Roll-Call 

Pursuant to notice issued March 5, 1915, stating that 
u there will be a meeting of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission in room 808 of the Tribune 
Building, No. 154 Nassau Street, New York, on Friday, 
March 12, 1915, at 8 p. m., for the purpose of concluding 
as far as possible the unfinished business of the Commis¬ 
sion,” there were present: 

Dr. George F. Kunz, Vice-President, presiding ; Chan¬ 
cellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Mr. Francis Wright 
Clinton, Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Mr. E. H. Hall, Mr. Ernest 
Harvier, Mr. William J. Lee, Mr. Robert A. McLean, Mr. 
E. A. Norman, Col. Henry W. Sackett, Dr. Edward W. 
Stitt, Mr. Roswell D. Tomkins, and Mr. Edward Van 
Winkle. 

Regrets for Absence 

Regrets for absence were received from Mr. Louis Annin 
Ames, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Dr. Tunis G. Bergen, Mr. 
Union N. Bethell, Mr. F. S. Bishop, Mr. Henry L. Bogert, 
Dr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Mr. William C. Breed, Com. 
Fred B. Dalzell, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Dr. John H. 
Finley, Dr. William H. Hale, Rev. Frank O. Hall, D. D.; 
Major Isaac A. Hall, Dr. Archer M. Huntington, Mr. Hans 
Lagerlof, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. Eben E. Olcott, Hon. 
Alton B. Parker, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Hon. John A. 
Sleicher, Dr. Theodore N. Vail, and Mr. Edward P. V. 
Ritter, and they were excused. 

Deaths Announced 

The Acting President asked the Commissioners to rise 
while he announced, with great sorrow, the death of Hon. 

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Charles D. Hoard, ex-Mayor of Ogdensburgh, which oc¬ 
curred on February 12, 1915, and of Hon. Charles A. 
Schieren, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, who died March 10th inst. 

Financial Report 

In behalf of the Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 
the chartered accountant, Mr. John J. Baird, reported the 
state of the treasury as follows : 


DEBIT 

Total receipts to Jan. 12, 1915, before reported. $108,631.95 

Refunds. 45.06 

$108,677.01 


CREDIT 


Total disbursements to Jan. 12, 1915.$92,857.36 

Paid on approved vouchers.. 10,443.42 

- 103,300,78 

Balance on hand March 12, 1915. $5-376.23 


The disbursements since January 12, 1915, above re¬ 
ported, included, in addition to bills previously approved 
by the Trustees, the following bills approved by the special 
committee appointed by resolution of January 12 (page 468): 


Tiffany & Co., engraving... $ 1.50 

Automobile Club, lunches to guests of Publicity and 

Religious Committees. 17.15 

F. P. Avery, bookkeeper. 98.30 

Annin & Co., badges for ushers at Religious Services. 3.00 

Indian Exhibits Co., moccasins. 6.75 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accountant to Jan. 31. 375.00 

John J. Baird, accountant, travel, etc. ••••.... 8.50 

Jacques & Co., diplomas. 4.25 

E. H. Hall, disbursements for stenographers, postage, etc. 84.91 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing minutes, etc. 191.09 

Tidewater Standard Co., transfer of collection. 100.00 

Attorney General, collection charge.!. 5.00 

Raymond Lancto, stenographer, Commercial Exhibits Com. 45.00 


$940.45 

The report was received and the payment of the bills 
not heretofore approved by the Trustees was approved. 


























47 1 


March 12, 1915 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills, not heretofore approved by the 
Trustees or special committee, were approved for payment, 
subject to examination and approval by the Auditing 


Committee : 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accountant to March 12 . $262.50 

E. H. Hall, paid stenographers, postage, etc. 105.90 

John Wanamaker, trunk for storage. 4.73 

J. B. Lyon Co., printing minutes. 49-75 

Kennedy Circular Adv. Co. multigraphing. 2.00 

Joseph K. Dixon, traveling expenses, Indian Exhibit. 125.14 

$550.02 


Tercentenary Exhibition Fund Closed 

Mr. Baird reported that the “Tercentenary Exhibition 
Fund ” created pursuant to the contract with the Tide¬ 
water Standard Co. (pp. 312, 320, 333, 363, 402), had been 
closed in accordance with the terms of article 2 of the 
agreement of September 2, 1914. The final statement 
showed the sum of $6,024.16, divisible between the Tide¬ 
water Standard Co., and the Merchants and Manufacturers 
Exchange in the proportions of their claims as follows : To 
the Tidewater Standard Co., $4,346.20 ; and to the Mer¬ 
chants & Manufacturers Exchange, $1,677.96. Pursuant to 
the resolution of October 21, 1914 (page 402), checks for 
these amounts had been signed by Mr. A. Milton Napier 
on behalf of the Tidewater Standard Co., and Col. Henry 
W. Sackett on behalf of this Commission as Vice-President 
thereof, and the Commission had taken general releases 
from both the Tidewater Standard Co. and the Merchants 
& Manufacturers Exchange, and also from the Tidewater 
Standard Co. an agreement to settle any claims which may 
be presented against the Tidewater Standard Co. and the 
Commission in connection with the Tercentenary Exhibi¬ 
tion. 

The report was received and approved, and the action of 
Col. Sackett in behalf of the Commission ratified. 

Col. Saclcetf Thanked 

It was voted that the special thanks of the Commission 
be given to Col. Sackett for his many sacrifices of time and 











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convenience for the Commission, and particularly his help¬ 
ful co-operation in connection with the Tercentenary Ex¬ 
hibition Fund. 

Unsettled Claims 

The Secretary read a report of the condition of pending 
suits and unsettled claims presented through counsel; and 
supplemented it with a verbal statement concerning other 
questionable claims. The report was received and ordered 
on file. 

The settlement of the suit of William T. Blaine at a figure 
approved by the Attorney General was authorized and the 
Acting President requested Mr. Clinton to co-operate with 
the Secretary in securing the most favorable terms possible 
within the limits specified. (The matter was subsequently 
settled for $1,275.) 

Settlements and Disbursements Authorized 

Owing to the illness and absence of some of the members 
of the committee appointed by resolution of January 12, 
1915, (page 468 ) to attend to the unfinished business of the 
Commission, it was voted that the committee be discharged 
with the thanks of the Commission and the following reso¬ 
lution was adopted: 

Resolved, that the Vice-President presiding appoint a 
committee of five members, of which he shall be one, to be 
known as the Committee on Unfinished Business; and that 
on and after this date, the said committee, or a majority of 
the members thereof, be and they hereby are authorized to 
dispose of any physical property of the Commission and 
effect such settlements and make such expenditures not ex¬ 
ceeding the resources of the Commission as in their discre¬ 
tion and judgment may be deemed wise and necessary for 
the conclusion of the unfinished affairs of the Commission; 
and the Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay accounts 
authorized as aforesaid after the further approval of the 
Auditing Committee. 

In accordance with the foregoing resolution the Vice- 
President presiding appointed the following committee: 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Francis Wright Clinton, Mr. E. 
H. Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, and Mr. E. A. Norman. 

Employment of Counsel Authorized 

It was voted that the Committee on Unfinished Business 
be authorized to employ legal counsel, as might be neces- 


March 12, 1915 


473 


sary, and at a total cost not exceeding $500, to advise the 
committee in matters not requiring the attention of the 
Attorney General. 

General Ratification of Proceedings 

The following resolution, similar to the one adopted by 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, was adopted: 

Resolved, that the acts and proceedings of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission, its officers, Execu¬ 
tive Committee and Board of Trustees recorded in the 
printed minutes which have heretofore been sent to all the 
members of the Commission be and they are hereby ap¬ 
proved, ratified and confirmed. 

The meeting then adjourned. 


E. H. Hall, 
Secretary. 


Minutes of 

Committee on Unfinished Business 

March 18, 1915 


A meeting of the Committee on Unfinished Business ap¬ 
pointed at the meeting of the Commission on March 12, 
1915, was held at No. 7 West 43rd Street, New York City, 
on Thursday, March 18, 1915. 

Present: Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Francis Wright Clin¬ 
ton, Mr. E. A. Norman, and Mr. E. H. Hall. 

Hill Approved for Payment. 

The bill of Prof. Henry T. Fleck amounting to $6.95 for 
traveling expenses to Albany May 7, 1914, was approved for 
payment. 

Wynl£Oop-HalleiiT»eclc-Cr»wibrd Co. Claim 

The claim of the Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Co., for 
$599 for printing was referred to Mr. Norman, with power 
to arrange for an exchange of general releases between that 
company and the Commission whereby the company would 
relinquish its claim for printing and the Commission would 
relinquish its claim for 5$ commission on the gross proceeds 
of the Official Program. 

Scliroeder Claim 

The Secretary read letters from Dr. Tunis G. Bergen re¬ 
questing a reimbursement to Miss Schroeder who partici¬ 
pated in the Commercial Exhibits at the Grand Central 
Palace. 

It was the consensus of the committee that the Commis¬ 
sion was not liable for the claim. The Secretary was auth¬ 
orized to consult counsel in the matter, and with his ap¬ 
proval to reply to Dr. Bergen to the foregoing effect. 

The meeting then adjourned. 


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E. H. Hall, 
Secretary. 


Minutes of 


Committee on Unfinished Business 

May 1, 1915 

The Committee on Unfinished Business, consisting of 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Francis Wright Clinton, Mr. E. 
H. Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, and Mr. Edward Norman, 
approved in writing the following resolutions the same as 
if they had voted for them in person at a meeting of the 
Committee, held at No. 154 Nassau Street, New York City, 
on Saturday, May 1, 1915, at 2 p. m. 

Scliroeder Claim 

Resolved, that the former action of the Committee on 
the claim of Miss Schroeder (page 474), disclaiming respon¬ 
sibility therefor, be reaffirmed. 

Unpaid Subscriptions 

Resolved, that unpaid subscriptions, which the Commis¬ 
sion has been unable to collect, amounting to $395, be 
written off. 

M. II. Cole Request Denied 

Resolved, that the request of the Secretary of the M. H. 
Cole Co. that this Commission pay $25.54 for telephone 
service on M. H. Cole’s contract at No. 500 Fifth Avenue, 
be denied. 

Settlement with Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford 

Resolved, that the Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Co. 
claim for $599 be settled in full of all claims by both 
parties by the payment of $249.50 to the Wynkoop-Hal¬ 
lenbeck-Crawford Co. 

Bills Approved for Payment 

The following bills were approved for payment, subject 
to examination and approval by the Auditing Committee: 

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476 Committee on Unfinished Business 


C. M. Photo Co., photographs. I 1 3 - 5 ° 

Tiffany & Co., inscribing two medals. 6.00 

Patterson, Teele & Dennis, services of accountant, includ¬ 
ing final audit, not to exceed... 225.00 

E. H. Hall, disbursements. 43.09 


$287.59 

Counsel Engaged 

The Secretary reported to the Committee that on March 
10, 1915, Mr. Henry L. Bogert had resigned as a member 
of the Commission, and had consented to advise the Com¬ 
mittee in the capacity of counsel in matters not requiring 
the attention of the Attorney General. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 









Report of Auditors 
May 10, 1915 


Following is the report of Messrs. Patterson, Teele & 
Dennis, certified public accountants, of No. 30 Broad 
Street, New York, of their audit of the accounts of the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, from 
April 17, 1913, the date of its act of incorporation, to May 
8, 1915. The report is dated May 10, 1915. 

Copies of this report were transmitted on June 7, 1915, 
to the Governor of the State of New York, as the repre¬ 
sentative of the State funds, the Mayor of the City of New 
York as the representative of the City funds, and to Messrs. 
J. P. Morgan & Co., as Treasurer and representative of the 
subscription funds. 

Prior to the making of this report, the Commission^ 
chartered accountant, Mr. John J. Baird, had received the 
following letter from the Comptroller ; 


STATE OF NEW YORK, 

comptroller’s office, 

Albany 

April 22, 1915. 


Mr. John J. Baird, 

Secretary, New York Commercial Tercentenary 

Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, New York City. 


Dear Sir: 

I am in receipt of yours of the 15th instant, and in 
reply beg to advise you that all vouchers submitted to this 
office have been examined, audited and credited to your 
account, and the account is closed. 

Kindly accept the thanks of this Department for your 
hearty co-operation in complying with the numerous re¬ 
quests made by the Department regarding the rules and 
regulations. 

Yours very truly, 

Eugene M. Travis, 

Comptroller. 


W 


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Report of Auditors 


The copy of the auditor’s report forwarded to Mayor 
Mitchel was acknowledged as follows: 


CITY OF NEW YORK 
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR 


June 14, 1915 

Dear Sir: 

The Mayor directs me to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of June 7th, transmitting copy of audit of ac¬ 
counts of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission prepared by Messrs. Patterson, Teele & Dennis. 
His Honor wishes me to inform you that the report sub¬ 
mitted is satisfactory to him. 

Very truly yours, 

P. C. Wilson, 

Asst. Secretary. 

Mr. E. H. Hall, Sec’y, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, N. Y. 


Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. acknowledged the report as 
follows: 


J. P. MORGAN & CO. 

WALL ST., CORNER BROAD 

New York 

New York, June 8th, 1915 

E. H. Hall, Esq., Secretary 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, 

New York, N. Y. 

Dear Sir: 

We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 
7th instant enclosing statement of Receipts and Disburse¬ 
ments of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission from April 17th, 1913, to May 8, 1915, audited by 
Messrs. Patterson, Teele & Dennis, for which we thank 
you. 

Yours very truly, 

J. P. Morgan & Co. 

The report of Messrs. Patterson, Teele & Dennis, follows: 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 




May io, 1915 


479 


PATTERSON, TEELE AND DENNIS 
ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS 

30 Broad Street, New York, May 10, 1915. 
To the Trustees of the 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

No. 154 Nassau Street, New York. 

Sirs: 

In accordance with your instructions, we have audited 
the accounts of the Treasurer of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission (incorporated by Chapter 313 of 
the laws of 1913 of the State of New York), from April 17, 
1913, the date of incorporation, to May 8, 1915. 

We have prepared and submit Schedule A, showing 

1. Receipts on account of appropriation by the State of 

New York under Chapter 530, Laws of 1914, and dis¬ 
bursements therefrom. 

2. Receipts from Subscriptions and other sources and dis¬ 

bursements therefrom, along with Exhibits 1 to 14 
inclusive, showing details of the disbursements. 

The appropriation of $10,000.00 made by the City of 
New York towards the expenses of the Commission was dis¬ 
bursed by the Finance Department of the City. No record 
of the receipt and disbursement of this appropriation there¬ 
fore appears in the account of the Treasurer of the Com¬ 
mission. 

The State appropriation of $100,000.00 is entirely ex¬ 
pended and there has been produced to us official notifica¬ 
tion from the Comptroller of the State, dated April 22, 
1915, to the effect that all vouchers submitted have been 
examined, audited and credited to the account of the Com¬ 
mission and that the account is closed. 

The receipts from subscriptions and other sources 
amounted to $9,102.95 and the disbursements therefrom 
were $6,037.77, leaving a balance in bank at May 8, 1915, of 
$3,065.18, which has been duly verified by us. 

In connection with this balance it is proper to state that 
certain claims have been made upon the Commission, the 
validity of which the Commission does not recognize. The 
interests of the Commission respecting these claims are in 
the hands of the Attorney General of the State of New 
York. 

Proper vouchers have been produced to us for all dis¬ 
bursements. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Patterson, Teele and Dennis, 

Accountants and Auditors. 


Seal 


480 


Report of Auditors 


New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, Incorporated by 
Chapter 313 of the Laws of 1913 of the State of New York. 
Statement of Receipts and Disbursements, from April 17, 1913, 
to May 8, 1915. 

Schedule A. 



State 

Subscription 


RECEIPTS 

Fund 

Fund 

Total 

State of New York appropriation under Chapter 




530, Laws of 1914. 

$100,000.00 


$100,000.00 

Public Subscriptions. 


$8,346.00 

8,346.00 

Sales of Medals and Badges. 


656-95 

656.95 

Royalties from Official Program privilege. 


100.00 

100.00 

Total Receipts. 

$100,000.00 

$9,102.95 

$109,102.95 


Disbursed 

Disbursed 


DISBURSEMENTS 

from 

from Sub- 

Total 


State Fund scription Fund 

Accounting and Auditing, Exhibit 1. 

$ 2,645.35 

$ 920.50 

$ 3,565.85 

Commercial and Automobile Pageants, Exhibit 2. 

26,347.59 

628.54 

26,896.13 

Commercial and Indian Exhibits, Exhibit 3. 

13,296.17 

2,164.87 

15,461.04 

Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 




prior to August 5, 1914, Exhibit 4.... 

15,795.72 

699.50 

16,495.22 

Flag and Poster, Exhibit 5. 

285.00 


285.00 

Headquarters, Exhibit 6. 

3,786 75 

521.91 

4,308.66 

illuminations. 

10,394.92 


10.394.92 

Local Festivals, Exhibit 7. 

11,064.07 

28.50 

11,092.57 

Medal and Badge, Exhibit 8. 

724.25 

3.00 

727.25 

Medals and Badges purchased for Re-sale. 


650.05 

650.05 

Museum Exhibits, Exhibit 9. 

1,563.31 


1,563.31 

Music Festivals. Exhibit 10. 

4,948.75 


4,948.75 

Publicity, Exhibit 11.. 

1,750.00 


1,750.00 

Reception, Exhibit 12. 

1,520.67 

19.00 

1,539.67 

Religious Meetings, Exhibit 13. 

1,408.09 


1,408.09 

Secretary’s Salary. 

4,000.00 


4,000.00 

Ways and Means, Exhibit 14. 

469.36 

401.90 

871.26 

Total Disbursements. 

$100,000.00 

$6,037.77 

$106,037.77 

SUMMARY 




Total Receipts as above. 

$100,000.00 

$9,102.95 

$109,102.95 

Total Disbursements as above. 

100,000.00 

6,037.77 

106,037.77 


UNEXPENDED BALANCES IN BANK 

State Fund... 

Subscription Fund. 


$3,065.18 $3,065.18 


Accounting and Auditing 

Disbursed 
from from 

7 - 7 State Subscription 

tLXrilblt I. Fund Fund 

Salaries of Accountant, Clerk and 

Secretary to Auditing Committee. $2,615.00 $920.50 

Sundries : Traveling, Stationery, etc... 30.35 


Total 

> 535-50 

30.35 


$2,645,35 $920,50 $3,565.85 



















































481 


May 10, 1915 

Commercial and Automobile Pageants 

Disbursed 


xhibit 2. 

Commercial Pageant : 

from from 

State Subscription 


Fund 

Furd 

Total 

Floats.$6,343.50 

Carriages, Horses, Riders, Costumes, 


$ 6 , 343 - 5 ° 

Grooms, etc. 

1,967.00 


1,967.00 

Banners, Flags, Pennants, etc. 

1,135.85 


04 

v-n 

bo 

C/A 

Music, Band Wagons and Autos,.,. 

29575 


295.75 

Prizes. 

419.00 


419.OO 

Decoration of Grand Stand. 

100.00 


100.00 

Salary of Director. 

Pay Roll-Solicitors for Entries, Steno- 

1,750.00 


1,750.00 

graphers and Clerks. 

3,027.78 

331-71 

3 - 359-49 

Postage. 

Printing, Stationery and Office Sup- 

768.68 


768.68 

plies. 

1,147.65 


1,147.65 

Telephone. 

123-95 


123.95 

Traveling. 

399-35 

10.00 

4 ° 9-35 

Sundries, Medals, Badges, etc . 

277.50 


277.50 

$17,756.01 

Automobile Pageant: 

$341.71 

</> 

OO 

b 

'O 

VJ 

»0 

Prizes. 

Pay Roll—Secretary, Solicitors for 

$4,412.76 

$228.00 

$4,6^0,76 

Entries, Stenographers and Clerks 

2,383.42 

27.75 

2,41 [.17 

Band Wagons and Autos. 

250.00 


250.00 

Banners, Flags and Pennants. 

33 1 • 1 7 


331-17 

Signs and Cards. 

Printing, Multigraphing and Station- 

173-75 


173-75 

ery. 

446.66 


446.66 

Postage. 

250.00 


250.00 

Traveling. 

1 11.95 

7.80 

119.75 

Sundries, Insurance, Telephone, etc. 

231.87 

23.28 

255.15 

Commercial Pageant and Automo- 

$8,591.58 

$286.83 

$8,878.41 

bile Pageant. Total. 1 

$26,347.59 

$628.54 $26,976.13 
























482 


Report of Auditors 


Commercial and Indian Exhibits 

Disbursed 


Fxhibit 3. 

from 

State 

from 

Subscription 


Fund 

Fund 

Total 

Commercial Exhibits: 
Amount paid under contract with 
Tidewater Standard Co., on ac¬ 
count of rent, management and 
other expenses.. 

$7,500.00 


$7,500.00 

Solicitation of Exhibits. 


1,275.00 

1,275.00 

Model of Old New York. 

300.00 


300.00 

Rent of Cuban Booth. *.... 

I 50.00 


150.00 

Insurance on Exhibits. 

250.70 


250.70 

Printing .. 

128.25 


128.25 

Entertaining Official Guests. 

606.32 

85-55 

691.87 

Medals and Badges for Official Guests 


100.00 

100.00 

Sundries. 

232.35 

I 50.00 

382.35 


$9,167.62 $1,610.55 $10,778.17 

Indian Exhibit : 


Expenses of Director preparing for 
Indian Exhibit, transportation of 


Indians, management, etc. 

.$ 3-05771 

$ 554-32 

$3,612.03 

Installation. 

. 173-54 


173-54 

Enlargement of Photographs 

. 499.80 


499.80 

Moving Pictures.. 

. 137.75 


13775 

Catalogues. 

. 93-90 


93 - 9 ° 

Sundries, Publicity, etc. 

. 165.85 


165.85 


$4,128.55 

$ 554.32 

$4,682.87 

Commercial Exhibits and 

Indian 


Exhibit. Total. 

.$13,296.17 

$2,164.87 

$15,461.04 


Director of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry 
Prior to August 5, 1914. 

Disbursed 


Exhibit 4 . 

from 

State 

Fund 

from 

Subscription 

Fund Total 

Salary. 

. . .$ 9 , 687.50 


$ 9 , 687.50 

Office Expenses, Rent, Salaries 

of 



Clerks and Stenographers, etc. 

.. 4 , 086.87 

250.00 

4-336.87 

Artists’ designs, photographs, etc 

881.00 


881 .OO 

Printing. 

730.35 

449.50 

1,179.85 

Postage. 



410.00 


$ 15 , 795.72 

$ 699.50 

$ 16 , 495.22 























May io, 1915 


483 


Flag and Poster 

Disbursed 


Exhibit 5. 

from 

State 

Fund 

from 

Subscription 

Fund 

Total 

Design for Official Poster. 

$250.00 


$250.00 

Window Display Cards. 

35.OO 


35.OO 


$285.00 


$285.00 

Headquarters 




Disbursed 



from 

from 


Exhibit 6. 

State 

Fund 

Subscription 

Fund 

Total 

Pay Roll—Stenographers. 

Printing, Multigraphing and 

$1,1 16.03 

$120.38 

$1,236.41 

Stationery.. 

1,352.65 

243.84 

1,596.49 

Postage. 

466.50 

34 - 5 o 

50I.OO 

Rent. 

39O.OO 

30.00 

420.00 

Telephone and Telegrams . 

168.19 

35-72 

203.91 

Advertising. 

S0.08 


80.08 

Messenger Service. 

78.93 

23-63 

102.56 

Expressage, Office Supplies, etc.... 

134-37 

33-84 

168.21 


$3,786.75 

$521.91 

$4,308.66 

Local Festivals 




Disbursed 



from 

from 


Exhibit 7. 

State 

Subscription 


Fund 

Fund 

Total 

Floats, Properties and Costumes for 




Pageant . 

$7,469.73 


$7,469.73 

Music. 

985-77 


98577 

Printing. 

577-50 


577 - 5 ° 

Transportation of Children, etc.... 

465-3° 

I 5.00 

480.30 

Motion Pictures and Photographs.. 

Platforms and Stands. 

Pay Roll — Clerks, Stenographers, 

i 9!-36 

I 55-36 

1,129.65 

13 - 5 ° 

204.86 

I 55-36 

1,129.65 

Attendants and Messengers. ... 


Postage. 

64.60 


64.60 

Sundries. 

to 

f- 

bo 

O 


24.80 

$11,064.07 

$28.50 

$11,092.57 


















484 


Report of Auditors 


Medal and Badge 


Disbursed 


Exhibit 8. 

from 

State 

Fund 

from 

Subscription 

Fund 

Total 

Design and Dies for Official Medal. 

$668.00 


$668.00 

Cuts of Official Medal. 

5.00 


5.00 

Printing. 

51.25 


51.25 

Inset to Medal—U. S. Mint. 


3.00 

3.00 


$724.25 

$3.00 

$727.25 

Museum Exhibits 




Disbursed 



from 

from 


Exhibit 9. 

State 

Fund 

Subscription 

Fund 

Total 

Historical Guides to the City of New 




York, Tercentenary Edition. 

$620.00 


$620.00 

Printing. 

806.49 


806.49 

Postage and Mailing . 

136.82 


136.82 


$ 1 , 563.31 


.563.3 1 


Music Festivals 


Disbursed 
from from 

^ 7 . State Subscription 

Exhibit IO. Fund Fund Total 


Orchestras and Vocalists.$4,125.00 

Printing and Stationery. 365.75 

Pay Roll—Publicity Writer,Stenog¬ 
raphers and Attendants. 440.50 

Postage. 17.50 


$4,125.00 

36575 

440.50 

17.50 


$4,948.75 $ 4 , 943-75 


Publicity 


Exhibit 11. 

Pay Roll — Publicity Writers and 
Stenographers. 

Printing, Advertising and Publicity 
Rent and Office Expenses. 


Disbursed 
from from 

State Subscription 

Fund Fund Total 


1,445.00 $1,445.00 

213-45 213.45 

91.55 91-55 


$1,750.00 


$1,750.00 



















May io, 1915 


485 


Reception 



Disbursed 
from from 


Exhibit 12 . 

State 

Fund 

Subscription 

Fund 

Total 

Banquet and Reception . 

... $ 886.17 


$ 886.17 

Entertaining Official Guests. . . . 

194.05 

$ 19.00 

213.05 

Delivering Programs. 

175 .OO 


175 .OO 

Printing. 

204.75 


204.75 

Medals and Badges. 

51.30 


51-30 

Postage. 



9.40 


$ 1 , 520.67 

$ 19.00 

$1,539-67 

Religious 

Meetings 




Disbursed 



from 

from 


Exhibit 13 . 

State 

Fund 

Subscription 

Fund Total 

Rent of Hippodrome. 

0 

0 

0 

0 


$ 500.00 

Rent of Platform. 

486.50 


486.50 

Printing. 

178.25 


178.25 

Postage.. . . 

88.94 


88.94 

Traveling. 



46.06 

Pay Roll—Stenographers, etc. . 

75.00 


75.00 

Sundries. 

33-34 


33-34 


$ 1 , 408.09 


$ 1 , 408.09 


Ways and Means 

Disbursed 


Exhibit 14 . 

from 

State 

Fund 

from 

Subscription 

Fund 

Total 

Salaries of Secretary and Stenog¬ 
raphers . 

$ 390.00 

$ II .60 

$ 401.60 

Expense Collecting Subscriptions.. 


I 50.00 

I 50 .OO 

Traveling.. 

16.50 

180.55 

197.05 

Telephone and Telegrams. 

28.36 

25.65 

54-01 

Sundries. 

34.50 

34 .IO 

68.60 


$ 469.36 

$ 401.90 

$ 871.26 






















Minutes of 

Committee on Unfinished Business 

May 22, 1915 


The Committee on Unfinished Business, consisting of 
Dr. George F. Kunz, Mr. Francis Wright Clinton, Mr. E. 
H. Hall, Mr. Ernest Harvier, and Mr. Edward A. Norman, 
approved in writing of the following resolutions, the same 
as if they had voted for them in person at a meeting of the 
Committee held at No. 154 Nassau Street, New York City, 
on Saturday, May 22, 1915, at 2 p. m. 

Transfer of Advertising Payments 

Resolved, that the Treasurer of the New York Commer¬ 
cial Tercentenary Commission be authorized to receive and 
deposit the following described checks which were made 
payable to the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission and delivered (by the makers) to the Wynkoop- 
Hallenbeck-Crawford Co. for advertising in the official 
program, namely: 

Check of Hiram Walker & Sons, No. 4256, dated October 
29, 1914, and signed by Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd., by C. 
King, Representative, drawn on the Astor Trust Co. for the 
sum of $80. 

Check of the Shanley Co., No. 3828, drawn upon the 
Commercial Trust Co., of New York, dated December 10, 
1914, signed by the Shanley Co., Michael J. Shanley, 
Treasurer, for the sum of $45. 

And resolved that the Treasurer be authorized to pay the 
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Co. the equivalent sum of 
these two checks from the treasury of the New York Com¬ 
mercial Tercentenary Commission. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretarv. 


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Minutes of 


Committee on Unfinished Business 

September 1, 1915 


Financial Report 

Following is a statement of the condition of the treasury 
of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission on 
September i, 1915: 

DEBIT 

Balance on hand May 8, 1915, as shown by Auditor’s 

report, page 479.. $3,065.18 

Walker & Sons, advertising. 80.00 

Shanley Co., advertising. 45.00 

$3,190.18 

CREDIT 

Paid on approved voucher: 

76. Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Co., advertising. 125.00 

Balance on hand Sept. 1, 1915. $3,065.18 

Rill Approved lbr Payment 

The Committee on Unfinished Business approved in 
writing of the payment of the following bill, the same as if 
the members had voted therefor in person at a meeting of 
the Committee held at No. 154 Nassau Street, New York 
City, on Wednesday, September 1, 1915, at 2 p. m. 

E. H. Hall, disbursements since May 1, as follows: 

Postage on reports. $16.00 

Dorothy E. Becker, stenographer. 19.50 

American District Telegraph Co. 2.50 

New York Telephone Co. 1.25 

Freight and trucking reports. 1.38 

$40.63 


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488 Committee on Unfinished Business 

Report to tlic Legislature 

The Secretary reported that on July 6 he had received 
500 copies of the Commission’s second report to the Legis¬ 
lature, transmitted to that body April 12, and that they had 
been distributed. 

E. H. Hall, 

Secretary. 












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Old Amsterdam in 1606 . See explanatory note on page 4. 



































The 


Commercial Tercentenary 


of New York 


1614-1914 


Reprinted from the First Annual Report of the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
to the Legislature of the State of New York 


Containing a Brief History of the Beginning 
of the Regularly Chartered Commerce of 
New Netherland and the Permanent Settle¬ 
ment of what is now the State of New York 


The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
No. 154 Nassau Street, New York 
1914 






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CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Letter of transmittal. 5 

Organization of the Commission. 7 

By-laws of the Commission. 8 

Financial Affairs. 9 

Official Flag. 10 

Plan of the Celebration. 10 

Headquarters of the Commission. 14 

Officers of the Commission. 14 

Chairmen of Committees. 15 

Members of the Commission. 16 

APPENDIX 

The New York Commercial Tercentenary: Being a Brief History of the 
Primitive Conditions, the Beginning of the Commerce and the 
Permanent Settlement of New Netherland, Prepared from Original 

Sources. 21 

Introduction. 23 

Primitive Conditions in New Netherland. 29 

Return of Half Moon to Holland in 1609-1610 . 41 

Voyages to New Netherland in 1610 . 43 

Search for Northeast and Northwest Passages in 1610-1611 . 45 

Voyages to the Hudson in 1611-1613 . 46 

Argali's Alleged Visit to Manhattan Island in 1613 . 49 

Beginning of Chartered Trade in 1614 . 54 

Building of the First Ship in New Netherland in 1614 . 58 

The Figurative Maps of 1614 . 61 

Building of Fort Nassau at Albany in 1614 . 64 

Significance of the Year 1614 . 66 

Commerce Continued Until Permanent Settlement. 68 

What Constitutes “Settlement”.a. 69 

Permanent Settlement of Fort Orange in 1624 . 71 

Commercial Prosperity in 1624 and 1625 . 74 

Colony Reinforced in 1625 . 75 

Permanent Settlement of New Amsterdam in 1626 . 77 































ILLUSTRATIONS 


FACING 

PAGE 

Old Amsterdam in Holland. Part of an engraving of 1606 . The low, 
round tower with conical roof is the Schreyerstoren or Weeper’s Tower, 
from which friends of mariners watched the departure of ships for New 
Netherland. This tower, built in 1482 , is still standing. The shipping 
is of the period when commerce with New Netherland began. In the 
upper right hand corner, the City of Amsterdam is personified by a 
woman, holding in her right hand a ship and in her left hand a shield 
which displays the City’s coat-of-arms. Approaching her are Mercury, 
the god of trade, and merchants of all nations with their products. 

The words “ Mercury” and “ merchant” come from the same Latin 


root meaning trade. 1 

Fort Orange, now Albany, permanently settled in 1624 . From a mural 
painting by Elmer E. Garnsey in the United States Custom House, 

New York. 8 

The Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians in 1626 . From a 
painting by Alfred Fredericks for the New York Title Guarantee and 
Trust Company. 16 


New Amsterdam, now New York, permanently settled in 1626 . From a 
painting by E. L. Henry for the New York Title Guarantee and Trust 
Company. The extreme southern end of Manhattan Island was called 
by the Dutch the Schreyershoeck, or Weeper’s Point, for a reason 
similar to that for the name of the Schreyerstoren in old Amsterdam. 24 
Fortified Indian Village. From an etching by De Bry, illustrating Hariot’s 
Relations, 1590 , based on drawing made by John White in Virginia. 
While it depicts the manner in which the coastal Algonquins, to whom 
the Manhattan tribes belonged, built their cabins and fortified their 
villages, yet the same methods prevailed among the Iroquois also.... 32 

Making an Indian Canoe. From an etching by De Bry, illustrating Hariot’s 
Relation, 1590 , based on a drawing made by John White in Virginia. 

It represents the method of hollowing a canoe out of a solid log with 
the aid of fire, practiced by the coastal Algonquins. The Manhattan 
Indians used canoes of this kind. The Iroquois made fighter craft of 


birch bark. 40 

Indians Broiling Fish. From an etching by DeBry, illustrating Hariot’s 
Relations, 1590 , after a drawing by John White. A custom of the 

coastal Algonquins... 48 

Indians “Seetheynge Their Meate in Earthen Pottes.” From an etching 
by DeBry, illustrating Hariot’s Relations, 1590 , after a drawing by 
John White. A custom of the coastal Algonquins. 64 


The First Map of Manahata and Manhatin. Extract from a copy of a 
map made by an Englishman in 1610 ; surreptitiously obtained by 
Alonso de Velasco, Spanish \ Ambassador to England, and sent to 
Philip III; now in the General Archives of Simancas. An outline of 
the whole map, from which this extract is copied, is in Brown’s “Gen¬ 
esis of the United States,” published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 

Inside of back cover 


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STATE OF NEW YORK 


No. 25 


IN ASSEMBLY 

March 4 , 1914 


New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 

Incorporated by Chapter 31 3 of the Laws of 1913 of the 
State of New York to Celebrate in 1914 the 300th 
Anniversary of the Beginning of the Chartered 
Commerce of New York 


President Secretary 

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, L.H.D 

Presiding Vice-President Assistant Secretary 

HON. HERMAN RIDDER A. E. MacKINNON 


No. 154 Nassau Street, New York 


March 2 , 1914 . 

Hon. Thaddeus C. Sweet, Speaker of the Assembly, Albany, 
N. Y.: 

Sir. — Pursuant to Chapter 313 of the Laws of 1913 , I have 
the honor to transmit herewith to the Legislature of the State of 
New York the first Annual Report of the New York Commercial 
Tercentenary Commission. 

Yours respectfully, 

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, 

President. 


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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 


OF THE 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 

Organization of the Commission 

New York, March 2 , 1914 . 

To the Legislature of the State of New York: 

The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, incor¬ 
porated by chapter 313 of the Laws of 1913 , respectfully pre¬ 
sents this its first Annual Report. 

This Commission is the outgrowth of a citizens’ committee 
appointed by the late Mayor William J. Gaynor of the City of 
New York in December, 1912 , upon the request of a number of 
prominent merchants, business houses, boards of trade and com¬ 
mercial exchanges of New York City, and was incorporated by 
special act of the Legislature for the purpose of celebrating in 
1914 the three hundredth anniversary of the granting of the first 
charters by the States General of the L T nited Netherlands for 
trading to New Netherland. 

The history of the events commemorated are set forth in a 
monograph by the Secretary of the Commission appended to this 
Report. 

The names of the members of the Commission are given here¬ 
with. They consist of the gentlemen named in the act of incor¬ 
poration, and those who were previously or have been subsequently 
associated with them by appointment by the Governor of the State 
or the Mayor of the City of New York; also the Mayors of all the 
cities of the State and the Presidents of the incorporated villages 
of the Hudson Valley, ex officio. 

Section 5 of the charter of the Commission provides that no 
member of the Commission, except the Secretary and one or more 


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8 


assistants to the Secretary, shall receive any compensation for 
services or be pecuniarily interested, directly or indirectly, in any 
contract relating to its affairs. 

The Commission permanently organized on May 14 , 1913 , 
when the following By-laws were adopted: 

By-laws of the Commission 

ARTICLE I. 

Section 1 . Office. The office and place of business of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission shall be in the City of New York, where 
all meetings shall be held unless otherwise ordered by the Trustees. 

Section 2. Trustees’ Meetings. The regular meetings of the Trustees shall 
be held on the fourth Wednesday of each month, provided that when such 
date of meeting shall fall on a holiday, the meeting shall be held on the 
following day. 

Section 3 . Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting of the members of the 
Commission for the election of Trustees and for the transaction of such other 
business as may come before it shall be held on the first Wednesday after the 
first Monday of May, each year, at 3 P. m. 

Section 4 . Other Meetings. Other meetings of the Trustees or Commission 
may be held upon the call of the President, and must be called by him upon 
the written request of ten Trustees. 

Section 5 . Quorum. At meetings of the Trustees ten shall constitute a 
quorum, and at meetings of the Commission the members who are present 
shall constitute a quorum. 

Section 6. Notices. Notices of meetings of the Trustees shall be sent to 
each Trustee at least two days before the time of meeting. 

ARTICLE II. 

Section 1 . Officers. The officers of the Commission shall be a President, 
twenty-five Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer, all of whom shall be 
Trustees, and shall be elected annually at the meeting of the Trustees in 
May and shall hold office for one year, and until others are elected in their 
stead. There may be one or more Assistant Secretaries who shall be appointed 
by and hold office at the pleasure of the Trustees. 

Section 2 . Trustees. The number of Trustees shall be 100 , who shall be 
elected annually by the persons named and designated in the first section of 
the Charter. The Trustees named in the Charter may appoint additional 
Trustees to hold office until the election in 1914 , but the whole number of 
Trustees shall not at any time exceed 100 . 

Section 3 . Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Trustees or Officers may 
be filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the Trustees present at 
any duly called meeting. When a Trustee shall have absented himself from 
three successive meetings, the Trustees may, in their discretion, declare the 
office vacant, and elect a Trustee for the unexpired term. 

Section 4 . President. The President shall preside at all meetings of the 
Trustees and of the Commission; he shall appoint all committees; and be 
Chairman of the Executive Committee and ex officio a member of all standing 
committees except wdien otherwise expressly relieved from such service, and he 
shall have a general supervision of the affairs of the Commission. 

Section 5 . Vice-Presidents. In the absence of the President or his inability 
to act, one of the Vice-Presidents, to be designated by him in writing, shall 
perform his duties and possess his powers. If he makes no designation, it 
shall be made by the Trustees. 

Section 6. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall receive, collect and hold, sub¬ 
ject to the order of the Board of Trustees, all moneys, securities and deeds 



Fort Orange, now Albany Courtesy of Elmer E. Garnsey. Sco pages 4 and 71. 













9 


belonging or due to the Commission, pay all bills when approved by the Trus¬ 
tees or the Executive Committee, deposit all money of the Commission in some 
depository to be approved by the Trustees, and render a report of the finances 
at each meeting or the Board of Trustees and at the Annual Meeting of the 
Commission. Money shall be drawn only on the check of the Treasurer, 
countersigned by the President or Secretary. 

Section 7. Secretary. Ihe Secretary shall keep the records of the Com¬ 
mission, of the Board of Trustees and of Committees, issue all notices, and 
perform the other duties ordinarily incident to that office, and when directed 
by the Trustees, affix the seal of the Commission. 

Section 8. Assistant Secretaries. The Assistant Secretaries shall perform 
such duties as may be assigned to them. 

ARTICLE III. 

Section 1. Order of Business. The order of business of meetings of the 
Commission shall be as follows, unless otherwise ordered: 1, Roll call; 2, 
Reading of minutes of the meetings not previously read; 3, Election of Trus¬ 
tees; 4, Report of Treasurer; 5, Reports of Committees; 6, Communications; 
7, Miscellaneous business. 

Section 2. Reports , Resolutions and Votes. At meetings of the Commis¬ 
sion and Board of Trustees, reports and resolutions shall be in writing. The 
yeas and nays shall be called on all resolutions authorizing the expenditure 
of money, and on all other questions, when requested by one member. 

ARTICLE IV. 

Executive Committee. There shall be an Executive Committee which shall 
consist of the Officers of the Commission and twenty-five other Trustees. It 
shall have general management of the affairs of the Commission, subject to 
the approval of the Trustees, and shall meet at least once a month. Seven 
of its number shall constitute a quorum. It shall elect one of its number 
as Vice-Chairman, who shall preside in the absence of the Chairman, and who 
shall perform such other duties as may be conferred upon him by such Com¬ 
mittee, not inconsistent with these By-laws. It shall appoint such sub-com¬ 
mittees and confer such powers thereon as it may deem advisable. A special 
meeting of the Executive Committee must be called by the Chairman upon 
the written request of five members, the purpose of such meeting to be stated 
in the call. 

ARTICLE V. 

Seal. The seal of the Commission shall be (description to be inserted after 
the adoption of the seal). 

ARTICLE VL 

Amendments. Amendments to these By-laws may be proposed in writing 
at any meeting of the Trustees. If twenty-five of the Trustees be present, any 
amendment may be adopted by unanimous consent; otherwise it shall be post¬ 
poned until a subsequent meeting, in which case the Secretary shall, with the 
notice of the next meeting, send a copy of the proposed amendment, stating 
that it will be brought up for action at such meeting, when it may be passed 
by a majority vote. 

Financial Affairs 

In view of the significance of the celebration to the business, 
commercial and industrial interests of the State and City, the 
Commission hopes that both the State and City governments will 
make liberal appropriations for its purposes. Such appropria¬ 
tions, it expects, will be reinforced by generous private subscrip- 

2 


10 


tions. Up to the present time, the running expenses of the Com¬ 
mission have been met by contributions of the Trustees. 

Official Flag 

The official flag of the Commission, adopted January 28, 1914, 
consists of three vertical bars, Nassau blue, white and Nassau 
orange, the blue bar at the staff. In the center of the white bar, 
the coat-of-arms. 

Charge: Upon a shield argent a marine view; in base a Dutch 
merchant vessel under sail on a body of water, all proper; sky 
argent and azure. 

Crest: On a wreath azure and argent a Dutch windmill 
proper. 

Supporters: On a quasi-compartment formed by the extension 
of the ribbon or scroll: Dexter: A Dutch merchantman proper; 
Dutch hat proper; vested vert; about the waist a belt gules; 
hose and shoes sable; buckles on shoes or; in the dexter hand a 
charter scroll argent; the sinister arm embowed, hand supporting 
shield at the dexter chief point. Sinister: A North American 
Indian proper; hair dressed and decorated with feathers; about 
the waist, skins proper; feet moccasined proper; in the sinister 
hand a pelt; the dexter arm embowed, hand supporting the shield 
at the sinister chief point. 

Motto: Below the shield on a scroll argent, azure and or 
1614-1914. 


Plan of Celebration 

It is proposed to begin the Celebration on Friday, March 27, 
1914, the three hundredth anniversary of the granting of the first 
general charter by the States General of the United Netherlands 
for trading to this region. On this date it is intended to have an 
Historical Meeting, with certain religious features. 

On the following Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29, it 
is recommended that the congregations of all religious denomina¬ 
tions hold services of praise and thanksgiving for the blessings of 
three centuries of progress. 

The foregoing meetings will sound the keynote of the celebra¬ 
tion, afford an opportunity to acquaint the public with the plans 
for later events and serve to stimulate popular participation in 

them. 


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It is proposed that the following months of April and May be 
devoted to various forms of commemoration in both the ele¬ 
mentary and higher institutions of learning. On days to be deter¬ 
mined by the respective educational authorities it is recommended 
that there be commemorative exercises in the public schools, with 
prize essays and orations and illustrated lectures for adults under 
the auspices of the Board of Education; educational symposiums 
by our universities, to which the great teachers of the world may 
be invited; the holding of a comparative exhibition of the pro¬ 
gress of commercial education in American and foreign cities; 
the establishment of a permanent exchange of students and 
teachers of commercial subjects between New l r ork and the lead¬ 
ing centers of commercial education abroad; and the establish¬ 
ment of permanent offices of international information on these 
subjects. It is possible that at this time, or later in the year, the 
opening of the new College of Administration and Commerce may 
be made a feature of the celebration. 

Beginning in the month of June and continuing through July 
and August and into September, it is proposed to hold a series of 
exhibitions of the material resources of the various States of the 
Union. 

The Commission is advised that numerous commercial bodies 
in different parts of the country will be glad to participate. The 
period of the exhibition will be divided into five successive parts, 
each part being devoted to one grand division of the country. It 
is expected to hold them in the Grand Central Palace, New York 
City, for which an option has been secured by the Commission. 
The dates planned for the exhibitions are as follows, an interval 
of about a week being allowed after each of the first four for 
changing to the next: 

1st. Monday, June 8, to Saturday, June 20. 

2d. Saturday, June 27, to Saturday, July 11. 

3d. Saturday, July 18, to Saturday, August 1. 

4th. Saturday, August 8, to Saturday, August 22. 

5th. Saturday, August 29, to Saturday, September 12. 

During these exhibitions there will be an exhibition by tht 
older commercial houses of New York showing the business 
progress of the City. 


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During the months of June, July and August, it is proposed to 
hold athletic meets, children’s festivals and local fiestas by the 
people of different nationalities in all parts of the City. 

Early in September* it is proposed that the leading museums, 
historical societies and technical societies open exhibitions appro¬ 
priate to the events commemorated, the exhibitions to remain 
open until the close of the Celebration about the middle of Octo¬ 
ber. One week devoted to the opening of exhibitions on successive 
days by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum 
of Natural History, the New York Historical Society, the Brook¬ 
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the New York Zoological 
Garden, and the New York Botanical Garden, is expected to lend 
dignity and emphasis to this part of the Celebration. 

In view of the important relation of the Panama Canal to the 
commerce of New York, as well as that of the world, it is pro¬ 
posed that the practical opening of the Canal in 1914 be celebrated 
by suitable exercises on land and water. As the most convenient 
time for a parade of merchant and passenger vessels and pleasure 
craft would be the second week of September, it is recommended 
that this observance be set for the week beginning Monday, 
September 7. 

During this week it is planned to hold a Pan-American Con¬ 
gress at which the commercial relations of New York, and the 
United States generally, with the other nations of the two 
Americas may be discussed. 

During the same week of September 7 it is recommended that 
there be local celebrations in the Cities along the Erie Canal, 
beginning at Buffalo and proceeding eastward day by day to Roch- 
chester, Auburn, Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady and Troy. 

In the week beginning Monday, September 14, it is proposed 
to recognize the Centennial of Peace between the English-speaking 
peoples. 

As a part of the Peace Jubilee, it is recommended that a Music 
Festival on a large scale be held, in which instrumental and sing¬ 
ing societies shall be invited to participate. 

* The dates for the events proposed for the early part of September will 
probably be readjusted so as not to conflict with the* Cup Races. 




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During the week of September 14 it is recommended that there 
be local celebrations in the Cities of the Southern Tier of Counties 
of this State. 

The week beginning Monday, September 21, is reserved mainly 
for local celebrations along the Hudson River, and in recognition 
of the prior permanent settlement of Albany (Fort Orange) it is 
proposed that these celebrations begin at the upper end of the 
river and work southward instead of beginning at the lower end 
and going northward, as in the case of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration. 

By the foregoing arrangement, it will be observed that the local 
celebrations throughout the State will have been concluded before 
the last two weeks of the Celebration in Hew York, leaving the 
Cities of the State free to participate in the display of Cities in 
Hew York mentioned hereafter. 

During the week beginning on Monday, September 28, it is 
recommended that there be in Hew York City a Pageant of States, 
in which all the States of the Union shall be invited to participate, 
each State to furnish one or more floats representing its history 
or its resources. It is recommended that this pageant be repeated 
on different days in each of the five boroughs of the City. 

With respect to these parades and those of the following week, 
it has been suggested that some, if not most of them, he held in the 
evening, when the people of the City generally are not employed 
and when business will not he interrupted. As a consequence, the 
general illumination of the streets would begin this week. 

During the closing week, beginning Monday, October 5, it is 
recommended that there be four street parades, namely (1) a 
merchants’ and manufacturers’ parade, in which the business 
houses of the City shall be represented; (2) an automobile 
parade; (3) a Pageant of Cities, in which Hew York and the 
other cities of the State shall be represented by municipal depart¬ 
ment exhibits or otherwise; and (4) a parade of men from the 
ships of the United States and foreign navies and from the pas¬ 
senger and merchant ships in the harbor. 

It is recommended that the last parade above mentioned be held 
on Saturday, October 10, in conjunction with the laving of the 


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corner-stone or inauguration of a permanent memorial of some 
kind. It is suggested that the permanent memorial be not a 
monument or statue, but a public work, such as a ceremonial 
water-gate, a permanent reviewing stand for public ceremonies, a 
stadium, a public building or institution, such as an industrial 
museum, or a park or a bridge. The Commission, through its 
Committee on Memorials, has already devoted a great deal of 
time and consideration to this subject, and at the present writing 
the prospect is that the recommendation of the Commission will 
embrace a plan which will combine a water-gate, commercial 
museum, and assembly hall. 

Other features of the closing week will be a naval review, an 
official banquet, entertainment for the sailors, etc. 

As October 11, the three hundredth anniversary of the granting 
of the first special charter for trading to Hew Hetherland, falls 
on Sunday, it is recommended that the Celebration close on this 
day, as it will have begun on March 27, with religious observance. 

The foregoing are the principal features of the plans as now 
contemplated, but many additional features have been suggested, 
if practicable. 

The Commission has employed Mr. A. H. Stoddard as Director 
of Commercial Exhibits and Pageantry. 

Headquarters of the Commission 

The headquarters of the Commission are at Ho. 154 Hassau 
Street, Hew York. 


Officers of the Commission 

Following is a list of the Officers of the Commission, the Chair¬ 
men of Committees and members of the Commission : 

President: Cornelius Vanderbilt, 30 Pine St., Hew York. 

Vice-Presidents: Hon. Herman Pidder, 182 William St., 
Hew York, Vincent Astor, August Belmont, Andrew Carnegie, 
LL.D., Gen. Howard Carroll, Hon. George B. Cortelyou, George 
J. Gould, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D., Clarence H. Mackay, 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, Hon. Alton B. Parker, John D. Bocke- 
feller, Jr., Col. Henry W. Sackett, Jacob H. Schiff, Isaac H. 
Seligman, Hon. Theodore P. Shouts, Hon. B. A. C. Smith, James 


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Speyer, Henry R. Towne, Theodore N. Vail, and William 
Ziegler, Jr. 

Treasurer: Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., 15 Broad St., Hew 
Vork. 

Secretary: Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D., 154 Nassau St., 
New York. 

Assistant Secretary: A. E. MacKinnon, 154 Nassau St., New 
York. 

Chairmen of Committees 

Athletics: Hon. James E. Sullivan. 

Auditing: Hon. N. Taylor Phillips. 

Banquet: Samuel W. Fairchild. 

Commercial Exhibits: E. P. V. Bitter. 

Contracts: Hon. Robert L. Harrison. 

Designs and Decorations: Charles R. Lamb. 

Educational Institutions: Elmer E. Brown, Pli.D., LL.D. 
Erie Canal: The Mayor of Syracuse. 

Executive: Hon. Herman Ridder. 

Finance: Hon. R. Ross Appleton. 

Flag and Poster: Louis Annin Ames. 

Historical Meetings: Samuel V. Hoffman. 

Illuminations: Hon. William Berri. 

Law and Legislation: Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

Local Festivals: Hon. William J. Lee. 

Lower Hudson Committee: The Mayor of Yonkers. 

Medal and Badge: Henry R. Drowne. 

Memorials: Franklin W. Hooper, LL.D. 

Museum Exhibits: George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Music Festivals: Prof. Henry T. Fleck. 

Naval Events: Hon. R. A. C. Smith. 

Netherlands: Henry L. Bogert. 

Nominations Committee: Col. Henry W. Sackett. 

Northern New York: The Mayor of Watertown. 

Panama Canal: Hon. Theodore P. Shonts. 

Pam American C ongress: ( V acant). 

Peace Centennial: Hon. William B. Howland. 

Plan and Scope: Gen. Howard Carroll. 

Publicity: A. E. MacKinnon. 

Reception: - Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Religious Meetings: Hon. John D. Crimmins. 

Reviewing Stands: William A. Johnston. 

Southern New York: The Mayor of Binghamton. 

Street Parades: Gen. George R. Dyer, N. G., N. Y. 

Upper Hudson: The Mayor of Albany. 


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Members of the Commission 


In the following list of members of the Commission, the names 
of Trustees are printed in italics: 


Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Lieut. C. J. Ahern 
Newton D. Ailing 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John Aspegren 
Vincent Astor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 

Aaron J. Bach 

Bernard M. Baruch 

A. G. Batchelder 

Charles Beckman 

August Belmont 

Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Tunis G. Bergen 

Hon. William Berri 

Charles A. Berrian 

Union N. Bethell 

F. S. Bishop 

Rudolph Block 

Solomon Bloom 

Samuel J. Bloomingdale 

E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 

Robert W. Boissevain 

George C. Boldt 

Reginald Pelham Bolton 

Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 

H. A. Bonnell 

Paul Bonynge 

Charles A. Boody 

Hon. David A. Boody 

William A. Boring 

E. B. Boynton 

Nicholas F. Brady 

William C. Breed 

Herbert L. Bridgman 

Nathaniel L. Britton, Sc.D., Ph.D. 

C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph.D., LL.D. 
James W. Brown 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
J. R. Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL.D., Litt.D. 

Hon. William M. Calder 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A. Cantor 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 

Oen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 

E. R. Chapman 


William Hamlin Childs 

Hon. Joseph H. Choate 

Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 

Henry Clews, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Edward K. Cone 

Hon. Maurice E. Connolly 

Hugh Connolly 

Cesare Conti 

John C. Cook 

Robert Grier Cooke 

P. H. Coombs 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou 

Clarkson Cowl 

Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 

C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 

John B. Creighton 
Hon. John D. Crimmins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
William N. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Hon. H. H. Curran 

Charles F. Daly 
Com.. Fred B. Dalzell 
M. E. de Aguero 
Albert de Cernea 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
John D. DeFriest 
William C. Demorest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
John Dowd 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling 
Henry Russell Drowne 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
Gen. George R. Dyer 

John C. Eames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Hon. William B. Ellison 
Henry Escher, Jr. 

Hon. John E. Eustis 

Clarence L. Fabre 

Samuel W. Fairchild 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

John H. Finley, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Berthold Flesch, M.D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 




















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W. C. Freeman 
Charles 77. Fuller 
Michael Furst 

Col. Asa Bird Gardiner 
Elbert H. Gary 
L. B. Gawtry 
Charles E. Gehring 
John F. Geis 
Isaac Gimbel 
George J. Gould 
Benedict J. Greenhut 
J. B. Greenhut 
Henry E. Gregory 
T. Greidanus 
Herbert F. Gunnison 

A. E. Hadlock 
William H. Hale, Ph.D. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Matthew P. Halpin 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Ernest Harrier 

Hon. A. Augustus Healy 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Bichard G. Hollaman 

Franklin IF. Hooper, LL.D. 

R. H. Hooper 

John J. Hooper 

Maj. F. L. V. Hoppin 

Walter B. Hopping 

Roy W. Howard 

Hon. William B. Howland 

Andrew B. Humphrey 

Archer M. Huntington, Litt.D. 

G. Murray Hurlbert 
David H. Hyman 

A. E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S. 
Prof. Henry P. Johnston 
William A. Johnston 
J. Harris Jones 
Lucien Jouvaud 

Otto H. Kahn 
Robert C. Kammerer 
Hon. Benjamin A. Keiley 
Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 
Cornelius G. Kolff 
George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Hans Lagerlof 
Charles R. Lamb 
Leopold L. Langrock 
Hon. William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph.D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 


Nelson P. Lewis 
W. V. Lifsey 
Stephen Lounsbery 

James B. Mabon 

Clarence 77. Mack ay 

A. E. MacKinnon 

Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 

Hon. Alrick H. Man 

William A. Marble 

Hon. Marcus M. Marks 

Hon. Douglas Mathewson 

William H. Maxwell, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Hon. William G. McAdoo 

Hon. George McAneny 

Thomas F. McAvoy 

Hon. Geo. B. McClellan 

Hon. Charles J. McCormack 

Alfred J. McGrath 

John Jay McKelvev 

S. C. Mead 

S. A. Miles 

Hon. Cyrus C. Miller 

L. E. Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 
Henry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M.D. 

Frank A. Munsey 
William C. Muschenheim 

Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 
George L. Naught 
George W. Neville 
E. A. Norman 

Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 
Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 
Eben E. Olcott 
Robert Olyphant 
Henry F. Osborn, Ph.D., LL.D. 
Eugene H. Outerbridge 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

Hon. George W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 

John A. Poynton 

Frederick B. Pratt 

Hon. William A. Prendergast 

Charles W. Price 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 

H. H. Raymond 
Fred A. Reed 
William C. Reich 
Charles E. Reid 


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Rev. Christian F. Reisner 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 

Col. Henry TF. Sackett 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlesinger 
George Martin Seeley 
William B. Seldon 
Isaac N. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shouts 
Henry Siegel 
A. Silz 

Hon. John A. Sleiclier 
George Carson Smith 
Hon. Robert A. C. Smith 
Thomas F. Smith 
Luigi Solari 
Nelson S. Spencer 
James Speyer 
Charles E. Sprat t 
Charles Steclcler 
Hon. Alfred E. Steers 
J. H. Steinhardt 
John A. Stewart 
Edward W. Stitt, Pli.D. 
Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Jacob Stumpf 
Hon. James E. Sullivan 

Willard U. Taylor 
Hon. Calvin Tomkins 


Hon. Charles A. Towns 
Henry R. Towne 

Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 

Theodore N. Vail, LL.D. 

Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip 

Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 

Hon. Judson G. Wall 

Hon. John Wanamaker 

Paul M. Warburg 

Whitney Warren 

Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 

Hon. James L. Wells 

Edmund W’etmore 

Maj. Robert A. Widenmann 

Hon. William R. Willcox 

Arthur Williams 

Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D. 

T. S. Williams 

Francis M. Wilson 

Hon. Egerton L. Winthrop, Jr. 

Charles B. Wolffram 

William J. Wollman 

Henry A. Wise Wood 

Otis Fenner Wood 

Maj. James Otis Woodward 

F. W. Woolworth 

James C. Young 
John R. Young 

William Zieglei', Jr. 


Mayors of Cities (Members ex officio) 


Albany . Hon. Joseph TF. Stevens 

Amsterdam . Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn. Hon. C. W. Brister 

Beacon . Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton . Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo . Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua . Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes . Hon. James S. Calkins 

Corning . Hon. Lewis N. Lattin 

Cortlandt . Hon. Walter H. Angel 1 

Dunkirk . Hon. J. T. Sullivan 

Elmira . Hon. Harry N. Hoffman 

Fulton . Hon. Frank E. Fox 

Geneva . Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Griffing 

Gloversville . Hon. G. W. Schermerhorn 

Hornell. Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson . Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca . Hon. Thomas Tree 





















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Jamestown . lion. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown . lion. Clarence W. Smith 

Kingston . Hon. Palmer Canfield, Jr. 

Lackawanna . lion. John I. Sidmey 

Little Falls . Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport . Hon. George A. Brock 

Middletown . Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon . Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Neicburgh . Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle . Hon. Edward Stetson Griding 

New York . Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

Niagara Falls. Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda . Hon. John A. Rafter 

Ogdensburgh . Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Glean . Hon. W. H. Simpson 

Oneida . Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta . Hon. Joseph S. Lunn 

Oswego . Hon. Thomas F. Hennessey 

Plattsburgh . Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis . Hon. Frank Lybolt 

Poughkeepsie . Hon. Daniel W. Willen 

Rensselaer . Hon. Frederick Ruliloff 

Rochester . Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

Rome . Hon. H. C. Midlam 

Schenectady . Hon. J. Teller Schoolcraft 

Syracuse . Hon. Louis Will 

Tonawanda . Hon. Albert J. Cordes 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica . Hon. James D. Smith 

Watertoivn . Hon. Isaac R. Breen 

Watervlict . Hon. Edicin W. Joslin 

Yonkers .;. Hon. James T. Lennon 


Presidents of Villages (Members ex officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton . 

Catskill . 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth. 

Cornwall . 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson . 

Dobbs Ferry . 

Fislikill . 

Fort Edward. 

Green Island . 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw . 

Hudson Falls . 

Irvington . 

Mechanicville . 

North Tarrytown .. 

Nyack . 

Ossining . 

Peekskill . 

Piermont . 

Red Hook . 

Rhinebeck . 

Saugerties . 

Schuvlerville . 


Hon. William M. Collier 

Hon. Christian Peters 

Hon. Willis A. Haines 

Hon. Charles M. Selleck 

Hon. J. Finlev Work 
* 

Hon. Charles J. Jaeger 
Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
Hon. Franklin Q. Brown 
Hon. John P. Dugan 
Hon. Alfred Brown 
Hon. John McGowan 
Hon. T. F. Reynold 
Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
Hon. Russel C. Paris 
Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
Hon. William A. Camfield 
Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
Hon. James Kilby 
Hon. J. E. Hollo 
Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
Hon. John R. Wood 
Hon. William S. Massoneau 
Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
Hon. William Ziegler 
Hon. H. C. Munson 




























































South Glens Falls 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater . 

Tarrytown . 

Tivoli . 

Upper Nyack .... 
Victory Mills .... 
Wappingers Falls . 

Waterford . 

West Haver straw . 


Hon. R. 8. Sherman 
Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
Hon. William R. Palmer 
Hon. F. R. Pierson 
Hon. P. H. Morey 
Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
Hon. M. E. Kelly 
Hon. John W. Mullen 
Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
Hon. Louis Adler 


Respectfully submitted, 

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, 

President. 


Edward Haoaman Hall, 

Secretary. 












APPENDIX 

THE NEW YORK 
COMMERCIAL TERCENTENARY 

1614-1914 


BY EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, L.H.D. 


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INTRODUCTION 


From March 27 to October 11, 1914, the City and State of 
New York will celebrate, by means of a series of religious, his¬ 
torical and educational exercises, art, scientific and commercial 
exhibits, street parades, and other festivities, the three hundredth 
anniversary of the beginning of the regularly chartered com¬ 
merce of what are now the City and State of New York. The 
dates above mentioned are the anniversaries respectively of the 
granting of the first general charter and the first special charter 
by the States General of the United Netherlands for trading to 
New Netherland. 

To arrange for the suitable observances of the completion of 
three centuries of American commerce, the late Mayor Gaynor of 
New York, in December, 1912, appointed a Citizens’ Committee 
which was subsequently enlarged and became incorporated as the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission by a special 
act of the Legislature, chapter 313 of the Laws of 1913. The 
Commission consists of the persons named in the Charter, the 
Mayors of all the Cities of the State ex officio, the Presidents of 
the incorporated Villages of the Hudson Valley ex officio, and 
such persons as may have been or may be associated with them 
by appointment by the Governor of the State or the Mayor of the 
City of New York. 

The Charter of the Commission is almost verbatim like that of 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, but the movement 
itself had a different origin. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 
1909 was purely historical in its conception and execution, every¬ 
thing of a commercial nature being carefully excluded from the 
program. The present celebration was initiated by representa¬ 
tives of some of the leading merchants, manufacturers and com¬ 
mercial exchanges of New York and contemplates, in connection 
with the historical commemoration, the cultivation of commercial 
relations throughout the country. 

In glancing at the historical events upon which the celebration 
is based it is interesting to note that the commerce of New Nether- 

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land began and was fully established before New Netherland was 
permanently settled. The first permanent settlement in what is 
now the State of New York was made by the Dutch at Fort 
Orange (Albany) in 1624, and the first permanent settlement on 
Manhattan Island was made at New Amsterdam in 1626. The 
permanence and success of those settlements from the very begin¬ 
ning were due, next to the natural industry of the Dutch pioneers, 
mainly to the fact that there had been ten years of peaceful and 
successful trading with the Indians by means of which the Dutch 
had contracted friendly relations with the natives before they 
attempted to settle permanently. 

The importance of this fact becomes apparent when one com¬ 
pares the course of events on the Hudson with what happened on 
the James River in Virginia. 

When the States General of the United Netherlands in 1614 
granted the first charter for trading to New Netherland, there 
were only two permanent settlements upon the Atlantic coast of 
the present United States, namely, the Spanish settlement at St. 
Augustine, Fla., and the English settlement at Jamestown, Va.* 

St. Augustine, founded in 1565, did not develop a commerce. 
It was established primarily as a military post to secure posses¬ 
sion of Florida in order to prevent other nations settling there 
and interfering with the treasure ships of Spain passing between 
Mexico and the old country, but it was also a center of missionary 
work among the Indians. 

Jamestown was settled in 1607. Plymouth was not settled 
until 1620. It was between these two dates that the commerce of 
the Hudson Valley was begun. While too much cannot be said 
of the wonderful enterprise and courage which led to the first 
permanent planting of Anglo-Saxon civilization upon this con¬ 
tinent at Jamestown, it is nevertheless to be observed that the 
early years of that Colony were characterized by a desperate 
struggle for mere existence; the development of a commerce, much 
as it was desired, was out of the question. The Colonists did not 
at first raise enough produce to sustain their own lives, and were 

* There was also a third permanent settlement within the limits of the 
present United States, at Santa Fe, N. Mex. This, however, was a religious, 
not a commercial establishment. 




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kept alive partly by food brought from the mother country by 
what were called the First Supply, the Second Supply, the Third 
Supply, etc., and corn exacted from the Indians much against the 
latter’s will. It is true, they sent back to England some rough 
timber, a consignment of sassafras, a cage of flying squirrels for 
the King, a load of yellow dirt which was thought to contain 
gold, etc., but nothing in those early years of sufficient value to 
compensate the factors for their investments; while the Colonists 
perished with starvation and Indian massacres until their pre¬ 
carious hold on the continent was almost broken. It was not until 
1614 or 1615 —just about the time of the chartering of the Hew 
Hetherland commerce — that their attention was turned seriously 
to the cultivation of tobacco, which eventually became a staple 
crop; but for several years after that, even, while developing the 
culture of tobacco, they were so improvident that they did not 
raise edible crops enough to feed themselves, and had to be 
assisted with the necessities of existence sent from England. 

Meanwhile, the Dutch, who for many years had had a profitable 
commerce with Russia in furs and who were keen rivals of the 
English Muscovy Company in the Russian trade, quick to realize 
the value of the resources of these commodities in the Hudson 
Valley, began trading in this unappropriated region. That the 
commerce was profitable from the very beginning is evident from 
the eagerness with which the Amsterdam merchants applied for 
a monopolistic charter after their preliminary voyages hither, and 
the jealousy with which they regarded any attempts at competi¬ 
tion, surreptitious or otherwise, after they secured that charter. 
It is the beginning of that commerce, which had radiated from 
Hew York and expanded to such great proportions, that the Ter¬ 
centenary primarily commemorates. 

Another significant event/closely connected with the beginning 
of this commerce, was the building of the ship Onrust (Restless) 
in Hew Hetherland in 1614. The Onrust was not the first vessel 
to be built within the limits of the present United States. In 
1527 Harvaez’s men built five vessels in Florida* and there are 

* The Onrust was 44 V 2 feet from stem to stern. The vessels built in Florida 
were each 22 cubits long. A cubit is variously estimated at from 18 to 22 
inches. 


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other evidences of extemporaneous ship-building in that region. 
Small vessels had also been brought to America in sections to be 
put together here, and various small repairs had been made on the 
Atlantic coast. But the Onrust was the first vessel to be built 
entirely of native wood along the middle or northern Atlantic 
coast, so far as our present information goes, and to have per¬ 
formed as notable a work of exploration as that done by Block ? s 
ship. 

This Celebration in 1914 is emphasized by a contemporaneous 
commercial event of extraordinary importance to the Nation, 
namely, the practical opening of the Panama Canal. This 
achievement connects backward with the events of which we have 
been speaking, and even earlier history. When Columbus sailed 
in 1492, he believed that he could reach the Orient by sailing 
westward. After he had discovered the West India islands and 
the Cabots had discovered continental America, and it was found 
that a double continent impeded the sea-road to Cathay, subse¬ 
quent explorers tried to find a passage through the land to the 
sea beyond. Cartier, LaSalle* and Champlain tried to reach 
China by way of the Saint Lawrence River and failed. Captain 
John Smith tried to reach the East Indies by way of the James 
River but was stopped by the Falls of Richmond. Henry Hud¬ 
son, choosing between a route unsuccessfully attempted by John 
Davis and another untried route which he thought more promis¬ 
ing, tried to reach China by way of the Hudson River, with no 
better success so far as his original object was concerned. How, 
after the lapse of centuries, the passage which they failed to find 
we have made at Panama. We thus have a period of three hun¬ 
dred years of American history sharply defined by two conspicu¬ 
ous events — at one end the beginning of the chartered commerce 
of Hew Hetherland which was the forerunner of the greater com¬ 
merce of the Hation; at the other end, the opening of the Panama 
Canal, which is the consummation of the hitherto unattained 
hopes of centuries and which is destined vastly to increase the 
commerce of the Port of Hew York and the Hation as time 
goes on. 

* Tim name LaChine (the French for China), was given in derision to a 
seigniory granted to LaSalle at Montreal on account of his ambition to reach 
China by that route. The name is preserved in that of the LaChine Rapids. 



These events, taken together with the virtual completion of the 
enlarged Erie Canal and the rounding out of a Century of Peace 
between the English-speaking peoples, make 1914 a red-letter year 
in the national calendar. 

The plan of the Celebration will show that the Celebration is 
not to deal exclusively with the material side of commerce. At 
no period in the history of the world has the intimate reciprocal 
relation between commerce and industry on the one hand and 
intellectual activity, as represented in the arts, sciences and let¬ 
ters, on the other, been so fully recognized as now. The modern 
university idea, as was well expressed recently by Chancellor 
Brown of New York University, a member of this Commission, is 
to bring the university into touch with every practical phase of 
human life. The same may be said of the modern educational 
idea generally. It reflects itself in the establishment of Professor¬ 
ships of Commerce and Colleges of Commerce in connection with 
the higher institutions of learning, in the teaching of arts and 
crafts in the public schools, and in many other ways. A strong 
and active national commerce and a vigorous and virile national 
industry stimulate art, science and literature, and these in turn 
react upon the commercial and industrial life of the Nation, mak¬ 
ing it more fruitful and progressive. Commerce is so truly the 
hand-maiden of Civilization, that it may almost be said that the 
culture of a people in the arts of civilization can be measured by 
its industry and commerce.* For these reasons, the plan of the 
Celebration contemplates the active participation of the educa¬ 
tional institutions, the museums of art and science, historical 
societies, and other bodies representing the intellectual life of the 
City, State and Nation. 

The New York Commercial Tercentenary Celebration, there¬ 
fore, is not an affair of circumscribed interest. The relation 
which the events to be celebrated bears to the commerce and indus¬ 
tries of the whole country is so intimate that the commemoration 
is one of national significance, and it is most appropriate that our 

"Note, for instance, the contrast between the Greeks, a maritime people, 
and the Egyptians, a non-maritime people; or between the sea-going Dutch 
and the exclusive and self-centered Chinese, with respect to both their own 
progress in art, science and letters and their influence in the spreading of 
civilization abroad. 



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fellow citizens of other States should share in the pride in the 
splendid commerce which has developed from the small beginning 
three centuries ago and should actively participate in the exer¬ 
cises, exhibitions and festivals attending the joyful celebration 
of the anniversary. 


THE NEW YORK COMMERCIAL TERCENTENARY 


Primitive Conditions in New Netherland 

Before taking up the story of the coming of the Butch traders 
to the Hudson River under charters from the States General of 
the United Netherlands, three centuries ago, it will be instructive 
to glance at primitive conditions which existed in what are now 
the City and State of New York at the time of the advent of the 
Europeans. 

In one of those wonderful stories of oriental magic with which 
Scheherezade entertained the Sultan of India for A Thousand 
and One Nights, it is related that Aladdin, by the power of his 
wonderful lamp, caused a beautiful palace to rise out of the 
ground in a night. The story of the growth of the City of New 
York, as a result of three centuries of commerce, is as interesting 
as a fairy tale, and it is much more wonderful because it is true. 

New York, with her population of 5,583,871 people, is, with 
the single exception of London, the greatest gathering of the 
human race in the world under one City Government. During the 
lives of some of the readers of these pages, she will outstrip Lon¬ 
don and become the largest city in the world. 

New York was not built in a night like Aladdin’s palace, but 
she has been built in so short a time compared with other cities of 
the world that it almost seems as if some genie, with supernatural 
powers, had done it. If the allotted age of man is “ three score 
years and ten,” as the Scriptures say, it would require less than 
five human lives, placed end to end, to reach back to the coming 
of Hudson, the beginning of commerce, and the first permanent 
settlement of Albany and New York. 

Before New York was born, other cities were aged. Old York, 
in England, from which (through the Duke of York) New York 
derives her name, had been in existence fifteen hundred years 
when Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Old York is 
still a comparatively small city, about as big as Troy, N. Y. Of 



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the eighteen cities of the world containing a population of a mil¬ 
lion or more, the fifteen foreign cities are all vastly older than 
New York. London is our elder by about 1600 years. Paris, 
now the world’s third city in size, was found in existence by 
Caesar, 53 years before Christ was bora. Our own American city 
of Chicago ranks fourth. The age of Tokio, the fifth, is veiled in 
mystery, but she is very old. Berlin, the sixth, was inhabited two 
or three hundred years before America was discovered. Vienna, 
the seventh, is as old as the Christian era. When Columbus dis¬ 
covered America, there were factories on the Neva delta, where 
St. Petersburgh, the eighth city in size, now stands. Canton, the 
ninth, dates from 200 B. C., and has a pagoda that was a thousand 
years old when Hudson explored the river that bears his name. 
Peking, the tenth, was 2400 years old when Marco Polo journeyed 
to China 200 years before Columbus discovered America. The 
eleventh is Philadelphia, another American city. Moscow, the 
twelfth, antedates the twelfth century. Buenos Ayres, the thir¬ 
teenth, was founded in 1535. Constantinople, the fourteenth, as 
Byzantium goes back 658 years B. C. And Osaka (the great com¬ 
mercial center of Japan), Shanghai, Tientsin and Glasgow, which 
just come within the millionaire class, are very old. 

New York is indeed young and has grown wonderfully under 
the influence of the American commercial spirit. If one wishes 
to imagine how the ground looked before that growth began — 
how Nature’s picturesque garden appeared before the seed of 
civilization was planted here — he must reverse Aladdin’s pro¬ 
cedure, and by a little mental magic make all these massive build¬ 
ings, and miles of streets, and hurrying millions sink into the 
earth. And what does he see? A wilderness of forests, rocks, 
hills, valleys, swamps, rivers and ponds. The roar of Broadway is 
gone; the roar of the wild beasts has come back. Manhattan 
Island is shrunk; the waters of the North River wash the shore 
of Greenwich street; the waves of the bay break in whitecaps on 
the Capse Rocks near Whitehall and Pearl streets; the tides 
of the East River wash the strand at Pearl street, and the interior 
is diversified with sparkling lakes and rippling streams in which 
many kinds of fish disport and to which the beasts of the field 
come to slake their thirst. 


Proportionate changes have taken place in the older City of 
Albany and all the other centers of population in the State. The 
primeval forests of Manhattan Island, like those of the rest of the 
State, once echoed with the growl of bears, the cry of panthers, 
and the howl of wolves. A bear was killed on Manhattan Island 
as late as the winter of 1679-80. Wolves and wild-cats were so 
numerous that among the earliest laws enacted by the English 
were laws giving rewards for killing these dangerous animals. 
The bounties ran as high as five pounds to a Christian for killing 
a grown wolf. An Indian was paid only half as much as a white 
man, probably because it was considered easier for an Indian to 
kill a wolf. Sometimes the Indian was paid with a “ Match 
coate ”— a loose coat originally made by the natives of fur 
matched together, but by the English manufactured from a coarse 
woolen cloth. Where the wolves w T ere not too numerous, deer 
were in plenty. Foxes were abundant up to the Revolution, when 
gentlemen made excursions from the little old City of Hew York 
to McGown’s Pass in Central Park to hunt them. The under¬ 
brush swarmed with rattlesnakes, which were particularly numer¬ 
ous in what is now Mt. Morris Park, Hew York City. This 
eminence once bore the suggestive name of Snake Hill. 

The waters of Hew York abounded with fish. Oysters of great 
size also grew here in profusion. Oyster shells nearly a foot long 
have been found on ancient Indian camp-sites. 

There were also marvellously big lobsters here, veritable giants 
of their kind. We are told that they measured six feet long. It 
is probable that that does not stretch the truth much, for the 
writer of these pages has seen and photographed a lobster in 
Maine as long as a six-year-old child. 

Among the animals which lived partly in the water and partly 
on the land, muskrats, otter and beaver were valued on account of 
their skins. The beaver is a very remarkable animal. He dis¬ 
plays wonderful architectural knowledge in building lodges, dams 
and canals. His industry has become a proverb. We say that a 
person who works hard “ works like a beaver.” The Indians be¬ 
lieved the beaver to be immortal. The white man thought differ¬ 
ently, however, and killed this interesting creature for his valu¬ 
able fur. The commercial greatness of the Port of Hew York can 


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be traced back to its beginning in the traffic in beaver skins. In 
the eighteenth century, America exported no less than 200,000 of 
these skins a year. It is on account of the importance of this 
animal in the history of the Metropolis that its picture has been 
placed in the official seal of the City. In the marshes dwelt 
another class of amphibious creatures, which made a great deal 
more noise and did a great deal less work than the beaver. They 
were “ the most wonderful bull-frogs,” says a Dutch historian, 
“ which croak with a ringing noise in the evening as in Holland.” 

There was a great variety of birds in olden times, most of which 
have been driven away by the approach of civilization but some 
of which occasionally frequent our parks. Two of the largest 
and most interesting of the feathered creatures which the white 
man found when he came here were the eagle and turkey. Both 
of these have become, in a sense, national birds. One is the 
emblem of freedom; it is in our national coat of arms and is 
stamped on our coinage. The other we have domesticated to fur¬ 
nish forth our national feast. 

When Verrazzano entered the harbor of Hew York in 1524, he 
“ found the country on its banks well peopled, the inhabitants 
not differing much from the others ” whom he had seen on the 
coast of the southern states, “ being dressed out with the feathers 
of birds of various colors.” When Hudson came 85 years later, 
he was visited by people, some of whom came “ in mantles of 
feathers and some in skinnes of divers sorts of good furres. They 
go in deere skins loose, well dressed,” says the journal of his 
voyage. “ They have yellow copper. They desire cloathes and 
are very civill.” 

When one goes up to the northern end of Manhattan Island 
and sees the empty shells of oysters which the Indians ate, it 
seems as if it were but yesterday when they departed, leaving 
their kitchen middens and some of their implements behind them. 

To understand who our predecessors were, it is necessary to 
explain first that all Horth American Indians were not alike. A 
Manhattan Island Indian differed in language and in many cus¬ 
toms, not only from a Florida Indian or a Rocky Mountain 
Indian, but even from the interior Indian of Hew York State. 
According to these differences, chiefly of language, the Indians 



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between the Atlantic Coast and the Kocky Mountains have been 
classified into six or seven principal groups. Only two of these 
groups have to do with the history of New York—the Algon- 
quins and the Iroquois. 

The Algonquins, which included the Indians about the harbor 
of New York, had a vast range along the Atlantic coast. They 
were bounded on the northeast by the Esquimaux of Labrador, 
and on the south by the Maskoki of the Gulf of Mexico region, 
and reached westward to the Great Lakes. 

In the interior of New York State, and surrounded by the 
Algonquins like an island, were the powerful Iroquois. The 
Iroquois were a terror to their neighbors, many of whom they had 
conquered and upon whom they levied tribute. 

The Algonquins were divided, by differences of language, into 
minor groups, as the Latin people of Europe are divided into 
Italians, Spaniards and Frenchmen. One of these Algonquin 
minor groups was called the Lenni-Lenape. Their name means 
“ Original People.’ 7 They were also called the Delawares. 

The Lenni-Lenape were divided into tribes which had lesser 
differences of language, similar to the differences of dialect in the 
various provinces of France. They took their names from some 
characteristic occupation, or from their geographical location, or 
from some feature of the place where they lived, or from the 
sachem or chief who was at their head. 

The Lenni-Lenape, or Original People, around New York 
harbor were therefore divided into tribes with various names, 
some of which are perpetuated in our local place-names to-day. 

Contrary to common belief, there was no tribe of Manhattan 
Indians. The name Manhattan first appears as “ Mannahata ” 
in Juet’s journal of Hudson’s voyage of 1609. He refers to a 
cliff of “ the colour of a white green,” which seems to mean the 
colored cliff of Hoboken, and says “ It is on that side of the 
river that is called Manna-hata.” This is confirmed by the 
map of 1610 reproduced herewith, in which Manahata is 
placed on the New Jersey side of the river and Manahatin on 
the New York side. When the Dutch came they used the 
name Manhattans to signify not only the Island but the whole 


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region roundabout. They would speak of going to ” the ,Man 
hattans ” as one would sj)eak of going to Virginia. The region 
to which they applied the name included several tribes of the 
neighborhood who spoke similar dialects. “ The Manhatans lan¬ 
guage,” says a document of the Dutch period, kk was used by the 
Indians hereabout .’ 7 Gradually the use of the name was nar¬ 
rowed down to Manhattan Island. 

The Manhattan Indians — using the term in a general way to 
mean those around the harbor — as well as the interior Indians, 
were an interesting and picturesque people. They were tall and 
handsome; straight as an arrow; brave as a lion; and fleet as a 
deer. They were bold in battle, obstinate in defense, stoical 
under torment and fearless in death. For their enemies they had 
no mercy; but they received the white men lovingly until pro¬ 
voked to retaliation by attempts at enslavement and other out¬ 
rages. Though not so far advanced from the stage of barbarism 
as the aborigines of New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico and Yucatan, 
they were ingenious in the use of natural objects and forces. 
Their senses of sight and hearing were much more acutely de¬ 
veloped than ours of to-day, and in their woodcraft they were 
very shrewd in drawing conclusions from what they saw and 
heard. 

In appearance their complexion was copper colored. Their 
hair was raven black and as coarse as a horse’s tail. Their eves 

t/ 

were black or brown, and piercing. Their teeth were white and 
well-formed. They wore no beards, pulling it out by the roots 
when it appeared. 

Their clothing was scant, especially in summer-time. While 
they wove coarse mats from rushes, they did not know how to 
make cloth and their garments were made of the skins of animals 
and the feathers of birds. They wore a skin about their loins, and 
a mantle made of a single deer skin, or of peltries sewed together, 
or of woven turkey feathers hung from the shoulders. Their 
mantles reached from their shoulders to their feet, and at night 
were used for bed covers. Their shoes, called moccasins, were 
generally made of deer-skin, but sometimes of corn husks. 

Dominie Megapolensis’ description of the Iroquois (Mo¬ 
hawks) and David De Vries’ description of the tribes about New 



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Amsterdam, indicate that the men of both regions wore their 
hair alike. On the top of their heads they had a ridge of hair, 
about three fingers wide, which extended from the forehead over 
to the back of the neck and which stood up “ like a cock’s comb or 
hog bristles.” On each side of this the hair was cropped close, 
except that they wore a long lock on one side, and sometimes, but 
not always, a similar long lock on the other side. They frequently 
ornamented their hair with the feathers of the eagle or turkey, 
and the chiefs and sachems wore elaborate feather headdresses 
as insignia of rank. They wore necklaces of bear’s claws, shells, 
and copper — the latter probably obtained from the copper mines 
of Lake Superior, by trading. 

The Indian woman ornamented herself more than the man did. 
She wore a petticoat which came to the knees, richly ornamented 
with shell beads, and the tips of the deer-skin in which she 
wrapped herself were made into tassels. She bound her hair in 
one or two plaits which would sometimes fall in front of the 
shoulders like an American girl’s “ braids.” Over her hair she 
sometimes drew a square cap thickly interwoven with shell beads. 
She also wore shell-bead ornaments on her forehead, around her 
neck, and on her arms, and belts of the same about the waist. 

The men painted and stained their bodies with colors made 
from powdered earths or extracted from plants, their war paint 
being as hideous as they could make it. The women only painted 
a black spot here and there, just as the court ladies of Europe used 
to put patches of court-plaster on their faces for ornamental 
purposes. 

The wigwams of the Manhattan Indians appear to have been of 
the Iroquois type, and were almost always built after one plan. 
The breadth was always about 20 feet, but their length varied 
according to requirements. Flexible poles about 15 feet long 
were set up in the ground in two rows about 20 feet apart. The 
rows were as long as the house was to be. Then they bent the 
opposite poles toward each other and bound their ends together, 
thus making a sort of open-work arbor of poles. Upon these sap¬ 
ling arches, strips of wood were fastened lengthwise and the whole 
framework was covered with mats Or with the bark of different 
kinds of trees. The bark was laid with the rough side outward 


and the edges overlapped like the shingles of a house, so as to 
shed water. They had no nails, and fastened everything with 
withes of bark or strips of leather. The lodge had an entrance 
at each end, covered with a flap of bark or the skin of an animal, 
and had holes in the roof to let out the smoke of their fires. The 
interior was often festooned with ears of corn braided together, 
and strings of dried meat and clams. Some of these lodges would 
hold sixteen or eighteen families — more than an ordinary five- 
story apartment house of to-day. 

Huddled together in those close, smoky habitations, they were 
not the cleanliest of individuals; but it must not be imagined that 
they never took a bath. When an Indian was sick he would some¬ 
times take a bath, and do it in a very ingenious manner. He 
would make a little earth hut and line it with clay. Into this he 
would creep through a small door and seat himself in the middle 
of a circle of very hot stones. Perhaps he would sprinkle water 
on the stones to produce steam. When he had perspired pro¬ 
fusely, he would suddenly crawl out and jump into a stream or 
pond of water. This was supposed to give him great security 
against all sorts of sickness. 

It did not require a large number of lodges to make a “ vil¬ 
lage,” and these communities, which varied in size, were scat¬ 
tered all along the Hudson Valley and throughout the State, par- 

ticularlv near the mouths of creeks. 

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The Indians lived by agriculture, hunting and fishing. Their 
vegetable food consisted mainly of maize or Indian corn, beans, 
squashes, nuts, plums and grapes. Hudson’s companion Juet 
says that while in Hew York harbor the natives brought him some 
dried “ currants ” (probably raisins), “ which were sweet and 
good.” From the corn, he says, they made good bread. Corn and 
beans mixed they called succotash. Crushed corn boiled to a 
gruel was “ sappaen.” They pulverized their corn by pounding 
it, sometimes in a wooden mortar made by hollowing a tree stump 
with fire, and sometimes in a hole in a rock. When they went to 
war, they carried a little dried corn in a pouch at the belt. The 
world has inherited the great blessing of corn from the Indian, 
and for that alone should hold the red man in grateful remem¬ 
brance. In 1912, the United States produced about 3,124,746,000 


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bushels of corn. Without this the other grain crops would not he 
able to meet the demand for food stuffs. Squash is an Algonquin 
word which we adopted from the natives along with the vegetable. 
Potatoes and beans were also inherited from the Indians, although 
we have no record of the cultivation of potatoes in this region. 

The meat food of the primitive New Yorkers consisted chiefly 
of pigeons and other birds, wild turkeys, deer, bears and dogs. 
The latter, a wolfish breed, was their only domestic animal. 
Roast or boiled dog was regarded by the natives as a sort of dish 
of honor. When Hudson made one of his landings up the river, 
the Indians, to show their hospitality, “ killed a fat dog, and 
skinned it in great haste with shells which they had got out of the 
water.” Hudson neglects to state how it tasted, but it was prob¬ 
ably as appetizing as the dogs eaten by the Dutch during the seige 
of Harlem and by the epicurean Frenchmen during the seige of 
Paris. The Indians cracked the bones of their meat food to 
extract the marrow. Beaver’s tails were also a great delicacy 
with them. 

Their fish food had a great variety of kind and was unlimited in 
quantity. That they consumed enormous quantities of oysters and 
clams is evident from the extensive shell-heaps which are yet to 
be seen in New York City and along the Hudson Valley. It is 
probable, however, that these shell-heaps are not exclusively the 
products of their feasts, for they carried on an extensive industry 
in drying oysters and clams for winter use and for trading pur¬ 
poses. Some of the shell-heaps are also quite likely the refuse 
from their wampum factories. 

From clam shells, oyster shells, and the shells of the periwinkle, 
the Indians made their money in the form of beads which they 
called wampumpeag or sewant. It was also called wampum, or 
peag, for brevity. Long Island was the “mint” of the New 
York Indians. It had two aboriginal names, Sewanhacky and 
Mattauwack. Sewanhacky (spelled “ Seawanhaka ” by a well- 
known modern yacht club) means the “ land of sewant ” or place 
of shells. Mattauwack (now spelled Montauk) means land of 
the periwinkle. 

The principal occupation of the male Indians was hunting and 
fighting. The existence of war was indicated by a hatchet painted 


red, ornamented with red feathers and struck into a post in the 
village. Their weapons were the bow and arrow, the war club 
and tomahawk. 

The aborigines knew nothing about gun powder, and when they 
first saw firearms used, they thought the white men were gods 
discharging lightning and thunder. 

The Indians hunted with the bow and arrow, fished with spear 
and bone-hook, and trapped with cunningly made snares. Iron 
was unknown to the aborigines. To give their arrows a hard 
point, they occasionally used copper, pieces of bone, horn, and 
bear’s teeth, but generally they tipped their shafts with stone 
chipped into a three-cornered shape. 

Their other implements and weapons were as simple as their 
arrows. The tomahawk and the war-club consisted of a grooved 
stone bound to the handle with a deer sinew. Their axes, skin¬ 
ning knives, scrapers and hammers were stones of different shapes. 
Their pails and dishes were made of bark folded up like the 
modern grocer’s butter box. Their spoons were made of wood. 
Their awls were made of stone, horn and bone and their needles 
of the latter. Their fish-hooks were made of bone. They had 
coarsely woven baskets, and they made bowls or jars of clay. The 
pottery of the Iroquois and Manhattan Indians differed somewhat 
in shape and ornament. A shell fastened to the end of a stick 
made a poor hoe, but a stone hoe or an all-wood hoe was better. 
So ignorant were they of the use of iron implements that when 
iron axes were first given to them, they hung them from their 
necks for ornaments, like lockets. 

With such simple instruments, these children of Nature felled 
trees, made canoes out of solid wood, and accomplished many 
other remarkable things. When the Indian wanted to build a fire 
he generally took a stick of hard, dry wood, pressed it against a 
piece of soft, dry wood, and twirled it so rapidly with a bow-string 
that it made heat enough to produce a spark in tinder. It is said 
that they also produced fire by rubbing two dry sticks together or 
by striking sparks from certain kinds of flinty stones. 

When an Indian wanted to fell a tree, he built a fire around the 
bottom of it and burned it down, preventing the flames from 
ascending flic trunk by wetting it above a certain line. They 


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made large canoes from tree trunks by hollowing them out with 
fire and scraping the charred wood with stone implements. 
Canoes of this sort were commonly used in the waters about Man¬ 
hattan Island when the white men came. Some of them would 
hold a dozen or fifteen men. 

The Iroquois also made canoes by covering a wooden frame¬ 
work with the bark of trees. These craft were very light and the 
Indians traveled in them with wonderful speed. The natives 
knew nothing about the use of sails, and when they saw a 
European ship the first time, they thought it was a great bird. 

The Indians made the women do most of the work. The latter 
had to get the fire-wood, draw the water, cook the food, plant the 
corn, cultivate the tobacco and do most of the other drudgery. To 
perform these labors and to take care of a baby at the same time 
was not difficult for an Indian mother, for she strapped the baby 
to a board and carried it on her back, or hung it up on the limb 
of a tree and it caused her no inconvenience. 

Tobacco culture was an important industry among the aborig¬ 
ines, for it was the source of their principal solace. Their food 
was simple and water satisfied their thirst. Drunkenness was 
unknown among the Indians of this State until Hudson took some 
Indians “ downe into the cabin and gave them so much wine and 
aqua vitae that they were all merrie and ... in the ende one 
of them was drunke; . . . and that was strange to them, for 

they could not tell how to take it.” 

The red man taught the white man to use tobacco. The native, 
having few other luxuries, enjoyed his tobacco to the utmost. 
He smoked it in pipes made of copper, stone and clay, upon which 
he often exercised his best art of ornamentation. He rarely 
smoked his tobacco pure, usually tempering it with the bark of 
certain trees or with certain weeds. 

So highly was tobacco esteemed that it was used in religious 
and other ceremonies and possessed a deep significance. By the 
incense of tobacco they communed with their Great Spirit, and 
at any great waterfall, like Niagara, they would pour wooden 
platefuls of tobacco into the cataract as offerings to their Manitou. 
Epon the approach of strangers the holding up of a calumet or 
peace pipe was a sign of friendship, which was confirmed by 


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smoking it. Treaties of peace were generally concluded by the 
smoking of tbe calumet by the chiefs of the opposite parties. In 
the early days of the Dutch regime tobacco was raised on Man¬ 
hattan Island and Long Island (now Brooklyn). 

The Indians also diverted themselves with games, some of 
which resembled modern amusements. They played games of 
chance by throwing plum stones and certain small bones of the 
deer, somewhat as dice are thrown. They also played a game of 
ball. The children amused themselves with dolls, very much as 
white children do. They used to sing in a weird sort of way, but 
they did not have what we would call musical instruments. 
Sometimes when they felt good after a feast, they would sing and 
pound their wooden spoons upon their bark dishes. In their 
religious ceremonies they used drums and rattles. The latter 
were sometimes made of dried gourds and sometimes of turtle 
shells. They are also said to have made whistles of bone or horn. 

They had no alphabet or written language. They had a crude 
way of making pictures on trees when traveling to indicate the 
direction in which they had gone, the number of their party, etc., 
and on their lodges to indicate their successes in battle. But if 
the Indian children thereby escaped the study of “ reading, 
Titing and ’rithmetic,” they did not escape the study of history. 
This was taught to them by their elders, and consisted of legends 
and narratives handed down from generation to generation by 
word of mouth. 

History-telling was highly esteemed among the aborigines, and 
many a tedious evening was whiled away, as they squatted around 
the camp-fire, smoking their pipes, and listening to the accounts 
of adventures in hunt or battle, or of the deeds of their ancestors, 
or to the marvelous creations of their poetic imagination. 

The Indians believed in a Great Spirit and a future life. Their 
heaven was a happy hunting ground, and some of them believed 
that the Milky Way was the path through the skies to that abode 
of bliss. They had many strange superstitions and equally strange 
religious ceremonies. One of the most curious of the latter was 
the White Dog worship.* 

# The writer has exhumed Indian dog burials on Manhattan Island, but there 
was no evidence that the dog-skeletons, so carefully buried under oyster shells, 
were the remains of White Dog ceremonies. 




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When, at last, the Indian himself died, he was generally buried 
in a sitting posture. In his grave were placed food, hunting and 
cooking implements and Indian money, for use on his journey to 
the next world; and a fire was built on the grave to enable the 
spirit to cook its food. In very ancient times, the Indians had a 
beautiful custom of capturing a bird and freeing it over the grave 
on the evening of burial to bear the spirit away to heaven. 

At an Indian funeral the men were generally very quiet, but 
the women “ carried on uncommonly” says an old writer, beating 
their breasts, tearing their faces, and calling the name of the de¬ 
ceased day and night. On the death of a son, the mother would 
cut off her hair and burn it on the grave in the presence of all the 
relatives. On the death of a husband, the widow did the same 
and painted her face black for a year. 

Thus lived and died the untutored children of nature who were 
the first owners of Hew York — simple in knowledge, simple in 
faith, picturesque in everything. Little did they imagine that 
the trails along which they trod with silent moccasined feet would 
sometime roar with the traffic of the second city of the world; that 
where their little bark wigwams stood would rise piles of clay, 
stone and iron so high as to shut out the light and wind of 
heaven; that their forests would vanish and with them the timid 
deer and the growling bear which had yielded them food and 
clothing; that the glistening lakes in which they fished would be 
filled up; that the sparkling streams in which the beaver built 
his lodge and reared his young would be buried out of sight; that 
they themselves, the monarchs of all they surveyed, would shrink 
and consume away before a civilization of which they had never 
so much as dreamed and that the time would come when white 
strangers would dig up their skeletons, pick up their arrow points, 
search their shell heaps, and uncover their dog-bones, in an effort 
to call them back to memory and reconstruct their lives. 

The Return of the Half Moon to Holland, 1609—1610 

At the time of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909, wide 
attention was given to the history of Hudson's voyage of 1609 
and events preceding it bearing on the discovery and exploration 


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of the Atlantic Coast of North America." The subject of the 
beginning of the commerce of New Netherland brings us to the 
consideration of the decade and a half following Hudson’s voyage 
of 1609 — a period during which, in the minds of Europeans, 
this region issued from the penumbra of uncertain knowledge and 


its attractions became so well known that regular commerce was 
begun and a permanent colony was planted in New Netherland. 

Two of our most valuable informants of that period whom we 
shall frequently quote require a few words of introduction. 

One of these is Nicolaes van Wassenaer, who was a learned man 
of Amsterdam, a practicing physician and author of historical 
and medical works. In 1622 he began at Amsterdam the publi¬ 
cation of a semi-annual record of the most remarkable events in 
Europe and America under the title of “ Historisch Verhael alder 
ghedenckweerdichste Geschiedenissen die hier en daer in Europa 
. . . voorgevallen syn.” There were 21 of these semi-annual 

parts covering the years 1621-1631. This authority will be re¬ 
ferred to, for brevity, as “ Wassenaer.” As this rare work, pub¬ 
lished in black-letter text in the Dutch language, is unavailable 
to most readers, we shall quote from the translation in “ Narra¬ 
tives of New Netherland,” by J. Franklin Jameson, unless other¬ 
wise expressly stated. 

Another authority of contemporaneous value is Joannes de 
Laet of Leyden, who was a scholar and author of note, and who 
in 1625 published a large folio volume entitled the “ Niemve 
Wereldt, ofte Beschrijvinghe van West Indien,” etc. The Dutch 
title, translated in full, is as follows: “ New World, or Descrip¬ 
tion of West India, collected out of Various Writings and Notes 
from Various Nations by Joannes de Laet, and provided with 
needful Maps and Tables.” We will refer to this source as “ De 
Laet;” and as consultation of this work is under the same limita- 


* A monograph on Hudson’s voyage by the present writer was published in 
pamphlet form by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission under the title 
of “Hudson and Fulton” and embodied in the Official Minutes of that Com¬ 
mission at pages 795-870. This monograph, considerably elaborated with 
respect to Hudson’s voyage, and accompanied by plans of the Half Moon, was 
printed in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic 
Preservation Society to the Legislature in 1910. In the same report is the 
text of a newly discovered copy of Verrazzano’s letter of 1524 and critique on 
the same verifying the claims of Verrazzano’s voyage in 1524. The publications 
of the New York Historical Society also contain interesting doonnients- ou 
this subject. ' 0 ‘ 



tions as that of Wassenaer, we shall quote from the translations in 
Jameson’s kk Narratives of New Netherland ” unless otherwise 
stated. 

Other authorities are Van Meteren’s “ Belgische ofte Neder- 
landsche Oorlogen,” etc., and the wealth of documentary testi¬ 
mony found in the volumes entitled “ Documents Delating to the 
Colonial History of the State of New York,” procured by John 
Komeyn Brodhead in England, France and Holland and edited 
by Dr. E. B. O’Callaghan.* 

It will be recalled that Hudson, after leaving New York 
Harbor in October, 1609, arrived safely at Dartmouth, England, 
November 7, 1609. (Juet’s Journal in Narr. New Neth. p. 28.) 
But owing to contrary winds, which prevented communication 
with Holland, a long time elapsed before the Dutch East India 
Company could be informed of the arrival of the Half Moon in 
England. The Company then ordered the ship and crew to return 
as soon as possible. But when this was about to be done, Hudson 
and the other Englishmen of the ship were commanded by the 
English government not to leave England. (Van Meteren’s 
“Belgische ofte Nederlandsche Oorlogen,” etc., edition of 1611, 
trans. in “ Narr. New Neth.” pp. 8-9.) After vexatious delays, 
Hudson was permitted to send his reports to the Dutch East India 
Company, and in July, 1610, the Half Moon reached Amsterdam. 

Voyages to New Netherland in 1610 

Van Meteren, referring to the detention of Hudson in Eng¬ 
land, says: “This took place in January, 1610, and it was 
thought probable that the English themselves would send ships to 
Virginia to explore further the said river ”— the name Virginia 
being applied then to the whole region from 34° to 45° north 
latitude. 

The probability that the English did precisely what Van 

* Owing to the conflicting dates and statements often given by writers 
working from secondary authorities, the present occasion has seemed to be 
sufficiently important to warrant a new and careful study of primary sources. 
For that’ reason, the following pages will quote frequently verbatim from 
original documents and contemporary annals, and will endeavor to show, as 
well as possible in a limited number of pages, the preponderance of evidence 
in favor of the facts stated. Tt is hoped that what may thus be lost in fluency 
of narrative may be more than compensated for by the knowledge of the 
foundation for the conclusions. 



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Meteren predicted is heightened by the circumstances attending 
the making of the earliest known map of Manahata in 1610 
which is in the general archives in Simancas, Spain. This map, 
which is reproduced in Alexander Brown’s “ Genesis of the United 
States ” and a portion of which is reproduced herewith, was sent 
to the King of Spain in a letter dated March 22, 1611, by Alonso 
de Velasco, the Spanish ambassador to England. Velasco, who 
secretly conveyed to his sovereign every bit of information which 
he could get about English explorations and discoveries, wrote 
that in 1610 the King of England had sent to Virginia a surveyor 
to survey the province and the surveyor had returned to London 
about the month of December, 1610, with a map of all he had dis¬ 
covered. Velasco surreptitiously obtained a copy of the map and 
sent it with his letter. (Brown’s Genesis of the U, S.) It is not 
known who made the map, which delineates the Atlantic coast 
from Cape Fear to Newfoundland. It is evident that whoever 
did make it embodied in it information derived from others. But 
the startling fact concerning the Hudson river is, that this is the 
first approximately correct delineation of it, certain characteristic 
crooks and turns in it indicating that it was drawn by a man who 
had been up the river. As it is most likely that Hudson would 
sacredly have guarded his maps for his Dutch employers, it is in 
the same degree probable that the Hudson river was delineated by 
an Englishman who visited it in 1610 as stated by Velasco. 

We also have more convincing evidence from De Laet, and from 
Van Kampen’s “ Uederlanders buiten Europa ” (I, 331) that the 
Dutch sent a ship back to the Hudson river in 1610. De Laet 
says: 

“ Hendrick Hudson having returned to Amsterdam with this 
report, in the year 1610 some merchants again sent a ship 
thither — that is to say, to the second river discovered, which was 
called Manhattes from the savage nation that dwells at its 
mouth.” (Karr. Kew Ketli. p. 38.) 

This Dutch voyage of 1610 is indicated again in a memorial 
by the West India Company to the States General exhibited 
May 5, 1632, in which the memorialists say: 

“ Subsequent to the first discovery by your subjects in 1609 of 
the North Biver (commonly called the Manhattos, also Bio de 


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Montaigne and .North River) and after some of your inhabitants 
had resorted thither in the year 1610 and following years/’ etc. 
(Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New 
York, I, 51.) 

We deduce the names of the promoters of the Dutch voyage of 
1610 from De Laet and the Documents Relating to the Colonial 
History of the State of New York. In the 1625 edition of 
De Laet above quoted, he says “ in the year 1610 some merchants 
again sent a ship thither.” In the editions of 1633 and 1640 he 
says “ some merchants of Amsterdam He also says: “And 
in the subsequent years” — that is, the years subsequent to 
1610 — “ their High Mightinesses the States General granted to 
these merchants the exclusive privilege of navigating this river 
and trading there. Whereupon, in the year 1615,” etc. (Narr. 
New Neth. p. 38.) Now the merchants to whom this exclusive 
privilege was given are named in the grant of October 11, 1614 
(see page 56 following), and therefore must have been the pro¬ 
moters of the voyage in 1610. 

Search for Northeast and Northwest Passages in 1610 and 1611 

The voyages to New Netherland in 1610 appear to have been in 
the nature of private enterprises, stimulated by the reports of 
Hudson’s voyage of 1609, and to have been of importance 
secondary to the movements of the more powerfully organized 
English and Dutch companies, whose dominant idea was to find 
a short passage to the East Indies either by the northeastward 
around Asia or the northwestward around North America. 

Thus it was in 1610, the English East India Company, the 
Company of Merchant Adventurers and a group of noblemen and 
London merchants, united in sending out Hudson, not to revisit 
and take possession of the Hudson River region, but to seek a 
northwest passage to the Indies. 

While Hudson’s ship was wintering in Hudson’s Bay, the Col¬ 
lege of the Admiralty at Amsterdam, possessed with the same 
idea, was preparing, under the authority of the States General, to 
equip an expedition to attempt again the northeast passage by 
way of the North Cape and Yaigats. Nevertheless, the projectors 
appear not to have forgotten entirely the results of Hudson’s 
voyage in 1609, and, while preparing for a northeast voyage, to 


have had a mental squint toward the west. In March, 1011, this 
expedition set forth. It consisted of two ships, the Fox (de Vos), 
sometimes called in the Dutch records the Little Fox (de Vosgen 
of Vosken), and the Crane (de Craen), sometimes called the 
Little Crane (de Craentgen or Craentien). The skipper of the 
Fox was Jan Cornelisz. May and that of the Crane was Simon 
Willemsz. Cat. They started bravely for the North Cape and 
Nova Zembla, just as Hudson did in 1609, and, finding themselves 
baffled as he was, also imitated him by turning their prows for 
America. They reached Nova Scotia in October, 1611, and ex¬ 
plored the New England coast as far south as Cape Cod, which 
latter they reached February 15, 1612. Thence they returned to 
their former quest of a passage by Nova Zembla, without visiting 
the Hudson River. (De Reis van Jan Cornelisz. May, published 
by the Linschoten Society at the Hague in 1909.) 

The foregoing voyages of Hudson and May are mentioned, not¬ 
withstanding the fact that their destinations were not the Hudson 
River, in order to show by comparison the relative characters of 
the voyages in search of the northwest and northeast passages on 
the one hand and the voyages to the Hudson River on the other, 
during the next few years. The searches for the northwest and 
northeast passages were conducted under combinations of powerful 
patronage, while the excursions to the Hudson River between 
1609 and 1614 were private ventures, much in the nature of 
prospecting trips. 

Voyages to the Hudson in 1611-1613 

That enterprising skippers reached these waters between the 
voyages definitely referred to as having been made in 1610 and 
those of the five ships which were made in 1614 and are mentioned 
hereafter, there are reasons to believe. 

One of the evidences of such visits is the Carte Figurative 
which is described more fully on page 61 following. This map, 
which was made not later than 1616 and possibly as early as 1614, 
has this memorandum, written in Dutch script, above the site of 
Albany: 

“As well as one can understand from the words and signs of the 
Mohawks, the French come with sloops as high up as to their 
country to trade with them.” (Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. S. N. YA 


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it is reasonable to infer that the visits of French traders, which 
had become customary in 1014 or 1016, began long enough before 
to have fallen within the period of 1011-13. 

There is more definite data, however, for placing in this period 
a known but undated voyage by Hendrick Christiaenssen of 
Cleves, described by Wassenaer in the following passage: 


This country, or the River Montague, called by ours Mauri¬ 
tius, was first sailed to bv the worthy Hendrick Christiaenz of 
Cleves. When he had been on a voyage to the West Indies he 
happened near there. But his vessel being laden and a ship be¬ 
longing to Monickendam having been wrecked in that neighbor¬ 
hood, he durst not approach that land; this he postponed, being 
desirous to do so another time. It so happened that he and the 
worthy Adriaen Block chartered a ship with the skipper Ryser, 
and accomplished his voyage thither, bringing back with him two 
sons of the principal sachem there. Though very dull men they 
were expert enough in knavery.” (Harr. Hew Heth. p. 78.) 

u The two lads brought hither by Adriaen Block were named 
Orson and Valentine.* This Orson was a thoroughly wicked fel¬ 
low, and after his return to his own country was the cause of 
Hendrick Christiaenssen’s death. But he was paid in like coin; 
he got a bullet as his recompense/’ (Harr. Hew Heth. p. 81.) 

In the foregoing quotation we have references to three voyages. 


* These names are taken from an old romance in which Orson and Valentine 
were the twin sons of the Emperor of Constantinople. Orson, according to 
the old story, was carried away by a bear and reared as a savage in the forest. 
The practice of capturing Indians and taking them to Europe was a common 
one. Probably all of the early explorers tried to do it and many were suc¬ 
cessful. Columbus began the practice in 1492. Verrazzano followed his 
example in 1524 by making prisoner of a boy on the Maryland or Virginia 
coast and would have done the same with a “ young woman who was of much 
beauty and of tall stature ” but was prevented by her screams. Cartier, on 
his first voyage in 1534, captured two Indian boys who had been confided to 
him by their father and took them to France. He brought them back on his 
second voyage and found them very helpful, but he recaptured them, and in 
addition five chiefs — Donnacona. Taignoagny, Domagaya, and two others — 
all of whom died in France. In 1605 Capt. George Weymouth captured five 
Indians on the New England Coast. In 1606, Capt. Edward Harlow captured 
five chiefs on the New England coast, one of whom, Exenow, “ was showed up 
and down London for money as a wonder.” In 1609, Hudson captured some 
Indians who in good faith went aboard the Half Moon in New York harbor, but 
they escaped and made him trouble afterward. In 1614 Capt. Hunt took 
Squanto from the New England coast to sell to the Spaniards, but the Indian 
managed to reach England and subsequently returned to Massachusetts where 
he was of much assistance to the Pilgrim settlers. These are only a few 
instances of many that might be cited. Some of the Indians were taken, like 
Squanto, to be sold into slavery; some merely as curiosities; and some for 
education as future interpreters. All, so far as we know, were taken against 
their will, and almost invariably by some cruel deceit. 



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Mentioned in chronological order they are: First, the voyage by 
the ship from Monickendam which was wrecked; second, the 
voyage by Christiaenssen when he discovered the Monickendam 
wreck; and third, the subsequent voyage under the partnership of 
Christiaenssen and Block, with Byser as skipper. Beckoning 
backward, we can fix the years of these voyages pretty closely. 
Let us consider first Christiaenssen’s voyage in partnership with 
Block. Wassenaer says: 

“ This aforesaid Hendrick Christiaenz, after Adriaen Block 
had dissolved partnership with him, made ten voyages thither 
under a grant from the Lords States.” (Barr. New Neth. p. 78.) 

The first grant from the States General under which Christiaens¬ 
sen sailed was the general charter dated March 27, 1614. (See 
page 54 following.) The names of the skippers and partners who 
sailed under that grant are named in the specific charter granted 
October 11, 1614. (See page 56 following.) Upon examination 
of the latter we find that the employing partners of the voyages in 
1614 were various merchants of Amsterdam and Hoorn; that 
Block and Christiaenssen were skippers in their employ; and that 
there was no skipper named Byser among them. By exclusion, 
therefore, we see that the voyage of the skipper Byser in the em¬ 
ployment of Block and Christiaenssen was not one of those made 
in 1614 between the dates of the general charter in March, 1614, 
and the special charter in October, 1614; and as it was made before 
Christiaenssen’s voyages under the grant of the States General it 
must have been made prior to 1614, that is to say, in 1613 at latest. 

Now, since the Block-Christiaenssen partnership voyage with 
Byser as skipper was made not later than 1613, Christiaenssen’s 
previous voyage, when he saw the Monickendam wreck, must have 
been made in 1612, unless he made two voyages in 1613, which 
latter was not likely at that period. 

As to the date of the Monickendam wreck, we have no means of 
judging whether it had occurred just before Christiaenssen’s 
arrival or earlier. 

Wassenaer’s cursory mention of the Monickendam vessel, due 
to its unfortunate fate, leads one to wonder how many other voy¬ 
ages may have been made about that time by inquisitive skippers 
who returned in safety and of whom we have no record. 



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Argali’s Alleged Visit to Manhattan in 1613 

The backward method of demonstration employed under the pre¬ 
vious heading necessitated the grouping of a number of events in 
the period of 1611—13. But there was one alleged event ascribed 
particularly to the year 1613, which requires separate considera¬ 
tion, for the reason that upon it has been predicated the claim that 
Manhattan Island was settled in that year by the Dutch; that the 
infant settlement at that time dwelt in “ four houses ” which were 
situated at Ho. 39 or Ho. 41 Broadway; and that it was governed 
by a Dutch Governor. 

The sole basis for this claim is a 32-page pamphlet which was 
published in London in 1648 and purported to have been written 
by “ Beauchamp Plantagenet.” It is entitled: “A Description 
of the Province of Hew Albion, And a Direction for Adventurers 
with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely: And 
for Gentlemen, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers, to 
live plentifully,” etc. 

It is addressed “ To the Bight Honourable and Mighty Lord 
Edmund by Divine Providence Lord Proprietor, Earl Palatine, 
Governour and Captain Generali of the Province of Hew Albion, 
and to the Bight Honourable the Lord Vicount Monson of Castle- 
main, the Lord Sherard Baron of Letrim: and to all other 
Vicounts, Barons, Baronets, Knights, Gentlemen, Merchants, Ad¬ 
venturers, and Planters of the hopefull Company of Hew Albion, 
in all 44 undertakers and subscribers, bound bv Indenture to 
bring and settle 3000 able trained men in our said severall Planta¬ 
tions in the said Province.” It is dated December 5, 1648. 

The pamphlet is in the nature of a prospectus designed to pro¬ 
mote a colonizing scheme. In phrases often incoherent, the 
author indulges in some high-flown metaphors; tells something 
of his alleged genealogy and alleged travels; gives extravagant 
descriptions of conditions and affairs in Hew Albion, and at 
length comes to the following passage containing the reference to 
Manhattan Island: 

" Then Virginia being granted, settled, and all that part now 
called Maryland, Hew Albion and Hew Scotland, being part of 
Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale and Sir Samuel Argoll, Captains and 


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Counsellors of Virginia, hearing of divers Aliens and Intruders 
and Traders without licence, with a Vessel and forty soldiers 
landed at a place called Mount Desert in Nova Scotia near S. 
lohns river, or Twede, possest by the French, there killed some 
French, took away their Guns and dismantled the Fort, and in 
their return landed at Manhatas Isle in Hudsons river, where 
they found four houses built, and a pretended Dutch Governour, 
under the West India Company of Amsterdam share or part; who 
kept trading boats and trucking with the Indians; but the said 
Knights told him their Commission was to expell him and all 
Aliens Intruders on his Majesties Dominion and Territories, this 
being part of Virginia, and this river an English discovery of 
Hudson an Englishman, the Dutch man contented them for their 
charge and voiage, and by his Letter sent to Virginia and re¬ 
corded, submitted himself, Company and Plantation to his 
Majesty, and to the Governour and government of Virginia; but 
the next pretended Dutch Governour in Maps and printed Cards, 
calling this part New Netherland, failing in payment of customes, 
at his return to Plymouth in England, was there with his Bever 
goods and person, attached to his damage 1500 1. whereupon at 
the suit of the Governour and Councell of Virginia, his now 
Majesty by his Embassadour in Holland, co’plaining of the said 
Aliens intrusion on such is Territories & Dominions, the said 
Lords, the States of Holland, by their publique instrument de¬ 
clared, That they did not avow, nor would protect them, being a 
private party of the Amsterdam West India Company, but left 
them to his Majesties wil & mercy: whereupon three severall 
Orders from the Councell Table, and Commissions having been 
granted for the expelling and removing from thence, of which they 
taking notice, and knowing their weaknesse and want of victuals, 
have offered to sell the same for 2500 1. And lastly, taking ad¬ 
vantage of our present war & distractions, now ask 7000 1. and 
have lately offered many affronts & damages to his Majestis sub¬ 
jects in New England: and in generall endanger all his Majesties 
adjoyning Countries, most wickedly, feloniously and traiterously, 
contrary to the Marine and Admirall Laws of all Christians, sell 
by whole sale guns, powder, shot and ammunition to the Indians, 
instructing them in the use of our fights and arms; insomuch as 
2000 Indians by them armed, Mohacks, Raritans, and some of 
Long Isle with their own guns so sold them, fall into war with the 
Dutch, destroyed all their scattering Farms and Boors, in forcing 
them all to retire to their Up fort 40 leagues up that river, and 
to Manhatas, for all or most retreating to Manhatas, it is now a 
pretty town of trade having more English then Dutch: and it is 


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very considerable that three years since Stuy their Governour 
put out his Declaration, confessing that the neighbour English 
might well be offended with their selling Indians arms and am¬ 
munition, but being but a few and so scattered, they could not 
live else there, or trade, the Indians refusing to trade or suffer 
the Dutch to plow without they would sell them guns.” 

It will be noted that no date is given for the visit of Argali to 
Manhattan Island; but as his excursion to Mount Desert was 
made in 1613, it is implied that 1613 was the date of his visit to 
Manhattan. All claims that Manhattan Island was settled in 
1613 and that four houses built by Europeans were standing there 
in that year are traceable to this pamphlet and their validity 
depends upon the reliability of its assertions. 

At the outset, the pamphlet lacks the credibility of a reliable 
author, for the writer either discredits himself by false statements 
concerning his genealogy or else he' is hiding behind a pseudonym 
to escape responsibility for his loose statements. On February 3, 
1840, Mr. John Pennington read before the Pennsylvania His¬ 
torical Society a paper entitled “An Examination of Beauchamp 
Plantagenet’s description of the Province of New Albion ” in 
which he points out discrepancies in Plantagenet’s genealogy, as¬ 
suming that Plantagenet was a real person. On the other hand, 
Alexander Brown, in his “ Genesis of the United States,” con¬ 
cludes that “ Beauchamp Plantagenet ” is a pseudonym covering 
the authorship of Sir Edmund Ployden, the patentee of New 
Albion. 

But quite aside from the question of authorship, and without 
considering the numerous departures from truth in other parts of 
the pamphlet, the passage already quoted supplies obvious evi¬ 
dence of unreliability. 

In the first place there was no Dutch West India Company in 
1613 and no Dutch Governor, as alleged in the pamphlet. This 
allegation alone is sufficient to shake confidence in the accuracy 
of other statements, especially in the significant absence of cor¬ 
roborative evidence. In fact, there is nothing outside of this 
pamphlet to support the claim that Argali and Dale visited Man¬ 
hattan in 1613. The written and recorded submission alleged to 
have been made by the Dutch Governor in 1613, of so much im- 


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portance if a fact, has never come to light. And that no such trans¬ 
action occurred at that time is strongly indicated in the generous 
treatment afterward accorded by the States General to Captain 
Dale. In 1603, Dale, an Englishman, was commissioned Captain 
in the Netherlands army. In 1611, the British ambassador at the 
Hague requested that Dale be granted a leave of absence in order 
that he might be employed in Virginia on his Majesty’s service; 
and the petition was granted. (Docs. Bel. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. I, 
1-3.)' Dale subsequently became Governor of Virginia. In 
1618, he applied to the States General for pay during his absence 
from the Netherlands and the sum of £1,000 was granted to him. 
(Brown’s Genesis of the IT. S.) If Dale, five years before, had 
been a party to forcing the Dutch occupants of Manhattan to 
surrender their claims thereto, it is highly improbable that the 
States General would have rewarded him so liberally. 

Another illustration of Plantagenet’s inaccuracy may he found 
in his reference to 11 Stuy ” (meaning Stuyvesant) in the closing 
sentence of the quotation we have given. He says that “ three 
years since, Stuy, their Governor,” confessed that the neighboring 
English had good cause to complain of the sale of firearms to the 
Indians by the Dutch. As this New Albion pamphlet was dated 
December, 1648, “ three years since ” would be 1645, whereas 
Stuyvesant did not assume the government until 1647. 

We will give one more illustration of “ Plantagenet’s ” ignor¬ 
ance of or recklessness with dates, and will then offer testimony 
to show that the incidents which he coupled with Argali’s expedi¬ 
tion of 1613 may have occurred in 1622. 

In another part of the pamphlet, “ Plantagenet ” refers to “ the 
next river called Hudsons river, of the name of Hudson an Eng¬ 
lishman, the discoverer thirty-five years since , who sold his dis¬ 
covery, plots and cards to the Dutch.” Thirty-five years prior to 
the date of the pamphlet would have been 1613, instead of 1609, 
when Hudson made his voyage. The rest of the pamphlet is an 
equally hopeless jumble. 

While it is not essential to our present purposes to discover 
what “ Plantagenet ” actually had in mind when he wrote the pas¬ 
sage about Manhattan Island before quoted, we may, as a matter 
of interest, cite a document which appears to give us a clue. 


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Cnder date of April 2, 1082, Capt. Jolni Mason sent to Sir 
John Coke, English Secretary of State, a letter which read in 
part as follows (abbreviations of the original here spelled out) : 

“ In ye year of our Lord God 1621, or thereabouts, certain Hol¬ 
landers were upon the coast of New England trading with ye 
Indians betwixt Cape Cod and Bay de la Warre in 40. degrees 
of Northerly latitude. . . . And Sir Samuell Argali Knight 
with many English planters were prepareing to goe and sit downe 
in his lott of land upon ye said Manahata river at the same tyme 
when the Dutch intruded, which caused a Demurre in their pro- 
ceding until King James, upon complaint of my Lord of Arundell 
with Sir Ferdinando Gorges Knight and the said Sir Samuell 
Argali (formerly Governor of Virginia) and Capt John Mason) 
of ye sayd Dutch Intruders in Anno 1621 had, by his Majesties 
order a letter to ye Lord of Dorchester their Ambassador at ye 
Hague, questioned the States of ye Low Countries for that mat¬ 
ter. Which ye Lords ye States by answer (as I take it) of their 
ambassador Sir Nowell Carronne did disclayme, disavowing any 
such act that was done by their people with their authority: which 
my Lord of Arundell and I think ye Lord Baltimore (then Secre¬ 
tary of State) doe remember, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges and 
Captaine Mason can witness ye same. Nevertheless, ye yeare fol¬ 
lowing, which (as I take it) was 1622, the sayd Dutch, under a 
pretended authority from ye West India Company of Holland 
maintayned as they sayd by commission from ye said Prince of 
Aurange, did return to ye foresayd river of Manahata and made 
plantation there.” (Docs. Bel. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. pp. 16—17.) 

In the foregoing letter we appear to have a statement of facts 
connected with Argali’s proposed colony at Manhattan, occurring 
in 1621 and 1622, when the Dutch West India Company did 
exist, and including the statement by a respectable authority 
concerning a Dutch disclaimer, which “ Plantagenet,” in his ill- 
regulated mind, connected with Argali’s excursion to Mount 
Desert in 1613. 

The evidence of the unworthiness of the “ Plantagenet ” pam¬ 
phlet appears so obvious in the light of what we have already 
stated that it seems unnecessary to strengthen the case against it 
by quoting Murphy, Pennington, and others. We may add, how¬ 
ever, this single sentence from a letter of Mr. Victor H. Paltsits of 
New York, formerly State Historian, who has recently made a 
fresh and critical examination of the pamphlet. He says: 


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“ 1 have examined this tract critically, noting its general un- 
worthiness and the impossibility of its assertions about Dale and 
Argali finding Dutch at Manhattan and under circumstances 
therein set forth.” 

Chartered Trading Begins in 1614 

While it is apparent from the statements in preceding pages 
that ships visited these waters prior to 1614, they were mere 
private ventures, apparently made with a view to ascertaining the 
commercial possibilities of the newly discovered region. When 
we come to the year 1614, we find a radical and important change 
in the character and results of these voyages. In the first place, 
we are not obliged to resort to deduction for our conclusions. The 
facts are matters of documentary record. In the second place, 
the trading becomes regularly chartered. And thirdly, the results 
are of capital importance. 

The information brought back from the voyages before 1614, 
including the evidences of a very valuable trade in furs, led the 
merchants of Amsterdam and some other ports to apply to the 
States General for a charter, but before granting them a specific 
charter, the States General judiciously required them to demon¬ 
strate their title to such special privilege. The States General 
therefore on March 27, 1614, issued the following general charter 
for discoveries (Docs. Del. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. I, 5-6) : 

u The States General of the United Netherlands. To all those 
who shall see these presents or hear them read. Greeting. Be it 
Known, Whereas We understand it would be honorable, service¬ 
able and profitable to this Country, and for the promotion of its 
prosperity, as well as for the maintenance of seafaring people, 
that the good Inhabitants should be excited and encouraged to 
employ and occupy themselves in seeking out and discovering 
Passages, Havens, Countries and places that have not before now 
been discovered nor frequented; and being informed by some 
Traders that they intend, with God’s merciful help, by diligence, 
labor, danger and expense, to employ themselves thereat, as they 
expect to derive a handsome profit therefrom, if it pleased Us to 
privilege, charter and favor them, that they alone might resort and 
sail to and frequent the passages, havens, countries and places to 
be by them newly found and discovered, for six voyages as a com¬ 
pensation for their outlays, trouble and risk, with interdiction to 
all, directly or indirectly to resort or sail to, or frequent the said 


passages, havens, countries or places, before and until the first 
discoverers and finders thereof shall have completed the aforesaid 
six voyages: Therefore, We having duly weighed the aforesaid 
matter and finding, as hereinbefore stated, the said undertaking 
to be laudable, honorable and serviceable for the prosperity of the 
United Provinces, And wishing that the experiment be free and 
open to all and every of the Inhabitants of this country, have 
invited and do hereby invite, all and every of the Inhabitants of 
the United Netherlands to the aforesaid search, and, therefore, 
have granted and consented, grant and consent hereby that whoso¬ 
ever any new Passages, Havens, Countries or Places shall from 
now henceforward discover, shall alone resort to the same or cause 
them to be frequented for four voyages, without any other person 
directly or indirectly sailing, frequenting or resorting, from the 
United Netherlands, to the said newly discovered and found pas¬ 
sages, havens, countries or places, until the first discoverer and 
finder shall have made, or cause to be made the said four voyages, 
on pain of confiscation of the goods and ships wherewith the con¬ 
trary attempt shall be made, and a fine of Fifty thousand Nether¬ 
lands Ducats, to the profit of the aforesaid finder or discoverer. 
Well understanding that the discoverer on completion of the first 
voyage, shall be liolden within fourteen days after his return from 
said Voyage, to render unto Us a pertinent Report of the afore¬ 
said discoveries and adventures, in order, on hearing thereof We 
may adjudge and declare, according to circumstances and dis¬ 
tance, within what time the aforesaid four voyages must be com¬ 
pleted. Provided that We do not understand to prejudice hereby 
or in any way to diminish our former Charters and Concessions: 
And, if one or more Companies find and discover, in or about one 
time or one year, such new Passages, Countries, havens or Places, 
the same shall conjointly enjoy this Our Grant and Privilege; 
and in case any differences or questions concerning these, or other¬ 
wise should arise or occur from this our Concession, the same shall 
be decided by Us, whereby each shall have to regulate himself. 
And in order that this Our Concession shall be made known 
equally to all, We have ordered that these be published and 
affixed at the usual places in the United Countries. Thus done at 
the Assembly of the Lords States General at the Hague the 
XXVII th of March XVP and fourteen. Was parapheered — J. 
van 01denbarnevelt vt . Under stood — By order of the Lords 
States General, 

C. Aerssen.” 

Between the date of the foregoing general charter, March 27, 
1614, and the date of the next document which we are about to 


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quote, October 11, 1614, a company of merchants of Amsterdam 
and Hoorn sent five ships, namely, the Little Fox (Jan de With, 
skipper), the Tiger (Adriaen Block, skipper), the Fortune (Hen- 
rick Corstiaenssen or Christiaenssen, skipper), the Nightingale 
(Thys Volckertssen, skipper) and the Fortune (Cornells Jacobs- 
sen May, skipper), to explore New Netherland. The proof that 
these voyages were made between March 27, 1614, and October 
11, 1614, lies in the charter which was granted on the latter date 
to the owners of the above-named ships and which is quoted here¬ 
after. The charter of October 11 says that it is granted to the 
owners of these ships in pursuance of the general charter of 
March, which promised such a special charter to “ whosoever 
should thereafter discover,” etc.— “ thereafter ” meaning after 
March 27. 

On October 11, 1614, with reports of their discoveries and a 
“ figurative map ” explanatory thereof, the deputies of the L T nited 
Company of Merchants appeared before the Assembly of the 
States General and applied for a monopoly of trade in those parts 
in accordance with the general charter of March 27. (Docs. Bel. 
Col. Hist. S. N. Y. I, 10-11.) Whereupon the monopoly was 
granted in the following extremely important document: 

“ The States General of the United Netherlands to all to whom 
these presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas Gerrit Jacobz 
Witssen, antient Burgomaster of the City Amsterdam, Jonas 
Witssen, Simon Morrissen, owners of the Ship named the Little 
Fox whereof Jan de With has been skipper; Hans Hongers, 
Paulus Pelgrom, Lambrecht van Tweenhuyzen, owners of the two 
ships named the Tiger and the Fortune, whereof Aedriaen Block 
and Henrick Corstiaenssen* were Skippers; Arnolt van Lybergen, 

* Hendrick Corstiaenssen above-mentioned and Hendrick Christiaenssen pre¬ 
viously mentioned are one and the same person. Mr. A. J. F. van Laer, New 
York State Archivist, who is an authority on Dutch names as well as other 
Dutch subjects, says that Corstiaen (also written Cors and Karstiaen) is but 
another form for Christiaen. With reference to Cornelis Hendriclcssen, who is 
mentioned on page 62 following and who is sometimes confused with Hendrick 
Christiaenssen, Mr. van Laer says that Corstiaen is not the equivalent of 
Cornelis, as is sometimes supposed. “ Cornelis ITendriekssen of Monnickendam 
was another man. He was left in charge of the ship Restless when Block 
returned in the ship of Hendrick Christiaenssen, apparently after the death of 
the latter at the hands of the savage Orson. Muilkerk suggests that Cornelis 
Hendrickssen was a son of Hendrick Christiaenssen. While this is not impos¬ 
sible, it seems unlikely to me, as Christiaenssen was from Cleves and Hen¬ 
drickssen from Monnickendam.” 




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V essel Schenck, Hans Claessen and Berent Sweertssen, owners 
of the Ship named the Nightingale, whereof Thys Volckertssen 
was Skipper, Merchants of the aforesaid City Amstelredam, and 
Pieter Clementssen Brouwer, Jan Clementssen Kies, and Cor- 
nelis \ olckertssen, Merchants of the City of Hoorn, owners of the 
Ship named the Fortuyn, whereof Cornelis Jacobssen May was 
Skipper, all now associated in one Company, have respectfully 
represented to us, that they, the petitioners, after great expenses 
and damages by loss of ships and other dangers, had, during the 
present year, discovered and found with the above named five 
ships, certain New Lands situate in America, between New 
France and Virginia, the Sea coasts whereof He between forty 
and forty-five degrees of Latitude, and now called New Nether- 
land : And whereas We did, in the month of March last, for the 
promotion and increase of Commerce, cause to be published a 
certain General Consent and Charter setting forth, that whoso¬ 
ever should thereafter discover new havens, lands, places or pas¬ 
sages, might frequent, or cause to be frequented, for four voyages, 
such newly discovered and found places, passages, havens, or 
lands, to the exclusion of all others from visiting or frequenting 
the same from the United Netherlands, until the said first dis¬ 
coverers and finders shall, themselves, have completed the said 
four Voyages, or caused the same to he done within the time pre¬ 
scribed for that purpose, under the penalties expressed in the said 
Octroy &c. they request that we would accord to them due Act 
of the aforesaid Octroy in the usual form: 

“ Which being considered, We, therefore, in Our Assembly 
having heard the pertinent Report of the Petitioners, relative to 
the discoveries and finding of the said new Countries between 
the above named limits and degrees, and also of their adventures, 
have consented and granted, and by these presents do consent and 
grant, to the said Petitioners now united into one Company, that 
they shall be privileged exclusively to frequent or cause to be 
visited, the above newly discovered lands, situate in America be¬ 
tween New France and Virginia, whereof the Sea coasts lie be¬ 
tween the fortieth and forty fifth degrees of Latitude, now named 
New Netherland, as can be seen by a Figurative Map hereunto 
annexed, and that for four Voyages within the term of three 
Years, commencing the first of January, Sixteen hundred and 
fifteen next ensuing, or sooner, without it being permitted to any 
other person from the United Netherlands, to sail to, navigate or 
frequent the said newly discovered lands, havens or places, either 
directly or indirectly, within the said three Years, on pain of 
Confiscation of the vessel and Cargo wherewith infraction hereof 
shall be attempted, and a fine of Fifty thousand Netherland 


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ducats for the benefit of said discoverers or finders; provided, 
nevertheless, that by these presents We do not intend to prejudice 
or diminish any of our former grants or Charters; And it is also 
Our intention, that if any disputes or differences arise from these 
Our Concessions, they shall be decided by Ourselves. 

“ We therefore expressly command all Governors, Justices, Of¬ 
ficers, Magistrates and inhabitants of the aforesaid United Coun¬ 
tries, that they allow the said Company peaceably and quietly to 
enjoy the whole benefit of this Our grant and consent, ceasing all 
contradictions and obstacles to the contrary. For such we have 
found to appertain to the public service. Given under Our Seal, 
paraph and signature of our Secretary at the Hague the xi th of 
October 1614.” 


Building of the First Ship in 1614 

The reference to ‘‘ loss of ships ” in the foregoing charter is a 
reminder of the burning of Adriaen Block’s vessel, the Tiger, in 
1614 and the building of the Onrust (Restless) to take its place. 
As many writers have stated that the Tiger was burned and the 
Onrust was built in 1613, it is particularly to be noted that the 
Tiger was still in existence in 1614. The charter granted October 
11, 1614, mentions bv name five ships, including “ two ships 
named the Tiger and the Fortune, whereof Aedriaen Block and 
Henrick Corstiaenssen were skippers ” and says that the owners 
“ had, during the 'present year, discovered and found with the 
above-named five ships, certain new lands,” etc. 

Concerning the building of the Onrust in 1614 to take the place 
of the Tiger, De Laet gives the following evidence: 

“ We have before stated how the country there abounds in 
timber suitable for ship-building; it is sought by our people for 
that purpose who have built there several sloops and tolerable 
yachts. And particularly Captain Adriaen Block, when his ship 
was accidentally burned in the year 1614, constructed there a< 
yacht with a keel thirty-eight feet long, forty-four and a half feet 
from stem to stern, and eleven and a half feet wide. In this 
vessel he sailed through Ilellegat* into the great bayf and ex¬ 
plored all the places thereabout; and continued therewith as far 
as Cape Cod, whence he came home in the ship of Hendrick 
Christiaensz, leaving the yacht on that coast for further trading.” 
(Harr. Hew Heth. p. 50.) 


* The East River, 
t Long Island Sound. 



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As it has been stated by several modern writers that the Tiger 
was burned in 1613 and that the Onrust was built on Manhattan 
Island, it is particularly to be noted that the date above quoted is 
1614. The only pretext which we can find for assuming 1613 as 
the date of the building of the Restless is the statement in the 
petition of Witsen and others on August 18, 1616, quoted in full 
on pp. 61-62 following, to the effect that they had employed “ dur¬ 
ing the space of three years ” the small yacht called the Restless 
which was “ built in the country there.” If “ three years ” meant 
literally thirty-six months prior to the date of the petition, it 
would place the building of the Onrust in August, 1613, but in 
view of the fact that the Tiger was afloat in 1614 and De Laet’s 
explicit statement that the Onrust was built in 1614, we must 
construe “ three years ” to be a general term meaning 1614, 1615 
and 1616, and thus refer the building of the Onrust to 1614. 

For the claim that the Onrust was built on Manhattan Island 
there is no documentary basis. De Laet, in the passage previously 
quoted, says it was built “ there.” As all the preceding part of 
the chapter containing this passage is devoted to a description of 
the Hudson River region, “ there ” may mean anywhere in the 
Hudson or neighboring waters. Mr. Paltsits, who has pursued 
this phase of the subject with particular care, writes as follows: 

“ Working wholly from the original sources of documents and 
contemporary printed works, I claim that Block’s Tiger was 
burned up the Hudson in the vicinity of modern Albany and that 
the Restless was built there.” 

The Onrust became a famous vessel and was the means of con¬ 
tributing greatly to our geographical knowledge. While Chris- 
tiaenssen was occupied in the Hudson River, three different ex¬ 
plorers were making explorations along different parts of the coast 
which had an important bearing on the geographical knowledge 
and cartography of the period — Block from East River to Cape 
Cod, Smith from Cape Cod northward, and May from Montauk 
Point to Delaware Bay. 

De Laet, as quoted on page 58 preceding, speaks of the building 
of the Onrust in 1614 and Block’s voyage through Hellegat (the 
East River) and the great bay (Long Island Sound) as far as 


Cape Cod. The implication of the text is that the voyage was 
made in 1614; and this is borne out by De Laet’s description of 
the Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts coast. (Harr. 
Hew Heth. 39—43.) First we will quote from De Laet to show 
from whom he got his information concerning those regions, and 
then we will quote him to show the year. 

“ Hellegat,” says De Laet, “ as named by our people, is another 
river, according to the description of Captain Adriaen Block, that 
flowed from the great bay ” (Long Island Sound) “ into the great 
river ” (the Hudson). (Harr. Hew Heth. 44.) Speaking of the 
islands in the western end of Long Island Sound, he says: “ There 
are a number of islands, so that Captain Adriaen Block gave the 
name Archipelagus to the group.” (Ibid. 44.) Of Harragansett 
Bay he says: “ Captain Adriaen Block calls the people who in¬ 

habit the west side of this bay Hahicans.” (Ibid. 42.) The 
“ river or bay of Hassau,” (Buzzard’s Bay) says De Laet, “is 
very large and wide, and, according to the description of Captain 
Block, is full two leagues in width.” (Ibid. 41.) Referring to 
Pye Bay, somewhere on the Massachusetts coast in the vicinity of 
latitude 42° 30', and thought by some to be Salem harbor, De Laet 
says: “ The distance from thence to the longitude of the Lizard, 
according to the observations and reckoning of Captain Adriaen 
Block, is 690 leagues or thereabout.” (Ibid. 39.) 

Seeing now from whom De Laet derived his information of the 
coasts above referred to, we are prepared to go back to a reference 
to the Fresh or Connecticut River which appears in the midst of 
those already quoted, and which gives us the year. “ The natives 
there,” says De Laet, “ plant maize and in the year 1614 they 
had a village resembling a fort for protection against the attacks 
of their enemies.” (Ibid. 43.) 

The late General James Grant Wilson, in his Memorial History 
of Hew York, referring to Brodhead’s Memoir in the Hew York 
Historical Society’s Collection, second series, II, 358, says of 
Block: 

“He does not seem to have ever re-visited the regions which 
he so industriously explored. He entered the service of the 
1 Great Horthern Company,’ the Holland (provincial) branch of 


(il 


which was chartered in 16Id, and which was erected upon a na¬ 
tional basis in 1622. In December, 1624, he was promoted to 
the command of an entire fleet of whaling ships; but history 
makes no further mention of him.” 

The Figurative Maps of 1614 

The discoveries by Christiaenssen and Block resulted in two 
remarkable maps or charts, which contain the first detailed infor¬ 
mation concerning the geography of New Netherland. These two 
maps are reproduced in volume 1 of “ Documents Delating to the 
Colonial History of the State of New York.” 

One, which we will distinguish as map “ A,” has a vertical 
length of 41 inches between borders and a horizontal width of 
141/2 inches. The original was found in the Boyal Archives at 
the Hague by Brodhead in 1841 with no mark or memorandum 
by which its date could be ascertained. It covers the area from 
north of the beginning of the Hudson Diver to south of Delaware 
Bay, and includes the Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna Divers. 
It appears to embody the results of the explorations of Chris¬ 
tiaenssen and his men in the country adjacent to the Hudson Diver 
in 1614 while his associate Block was exploring Long Island 
Sound. On the copy of this map, Mr. Brodhead wrote that it may 
be the one referred to in the octroy of the States, dated October 11, 
1614, or it may have been presented by Captain Hendrickssen 
when he made his written report in August, 1616. 

The other map, which we will call “ B,” has a vertical length 
of 25 inches between borders and a horizontal width of 17 inches. 
It represents the coast and country from Virginia to the St. Law¬ 
rence Diver, but with the greatest detail between the 40th and 
45th parallels of latitude, called “Nieu Nederlandt.” This map 
was found by Mr. Brodhead in the Doyal Archives in the Hague 
in 1841, attached to the following petition which was read to the 
States General on August 18, 1616 (Docs. Del. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. 
I, 13): 

“ To the High and Mighty Lords, the Lords States General &c. 

Despectfully represent Gerrit Jacob Witsen Burgomaster at 
Amsterdam, Jonas Witsen, Lambrecht van Tweenhuyzen, Paulus 

i 


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Pelgrom cum sociis, Directors of New Netherlands extending 
from 40 to 45 degrees, situate in America between New France 
and Virginia, that they have, at great and excessive expense, dis¬ 
covered and found a certain country, bay and three rivers situate 
in the Latitude of from 38 to 40 degrees, (as is-more fully to be 
seen by the Figurative Map hereunto annexed) in a small Yacht 
of about eight Lasts burthen, called the Restless, whereof Cornells 
Hendricksz 11 of Munnickendam is Skipper — Which little yacht 
they, the Petitioners, caused to be built in the country there, and 
employed the aforesaid Cornells Hendricksz 11 in the aforesaid 
Countries during the space of three years, in the above mentioned 
little Yacht, looking for new countries, havens, bays and rivers. 
And Whereas Your High and Mighty Lordships did in March, 
1614, publish by Placard, that whosoever should discover any new 
countries, bays or rivers, the said finders and discoverers should 
enjoy for their discovery, the grants to trade and traffic exclus¬ 
ively for four Voyages to the aforesaid countries, on condition of 
making a Report thereof to Your High Mightinesses; Therefore 
your Petitioners turn to Your High Mightinesses, respectfully 
praying and requesting that You, High and Mighty Lords, may 
be pleased to hear the aforesaid Cornells Hendrickxzen’s Report, 
and to examine the aforesaid Map and Discovery, and to grant 
the Petitioners accordingly Charter of the exclusive trade to the 
aforesaid Countries, for the term of four years, according to the 
accompanying Placard (of the 27 th March 1614.) 

Which doing etc. 

(Endorsed) Petition of Gerrit Jacob Witsen, Burgomaster at 
Amsterdam, Jonas Witsen, Lambrecht van Tween- 
huyzen, Paulus Pelgrom cum sociis, Directors of 
New Netherland, etc. 1616.” 

It is not apparent why these petitioners should apply in 1616 
for an exclusive trading charter for four years, while they were 
still enjoying with others this monopoly under the charter of 
October 11, 1614, running for three years from January 1 , 1615; 
unless it was with a view to trading in another part of New 
Netherland on the basis of Cornells Hendrickssen’s later report. 
But this does not concern us so much as the “ Figurative Map 
hereunto annexed,” namely, the one we have distinguished as 
map “ B.” 



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Although attached to a petition dated 1610, the map itself 
seems to be attributable to 1614. 

The strongest indication of the date of this map is the fact that 
it does not contain any evidence of geographical knowledge 
acquired after 1614. From the Hudson River westward it is 
substantially based on map “A” with which it appears to be con¬ 
temporaneous. The note at the head of the Hudson River to the 
effect that “ as well as one can understand from the words and 
signs of the Mohawks the French come with sloops as high up as 
to their country to trade with them ” is such as would be put on 
the first map drawn after the information was obtained, and we 
know that Christiaenssen explored the river in 1614. Opposite 
the site of Albany is the name “ Fort van Nassou ” (an old spell¬ 
ing of Nassau), with the dimensions of the fort (see page 65 fol¬ 
lowing), and De Laet, in describing the fort, the width of the 
ditch and the number of guns mounted (page 64 following) says 
the fort was built in 1614. The dimensions of the fort are details 
which might naturally be put on the first map presented after it 
was built but which would not be likely to be repeated on later 
maps, and again suggest that the map is one of 1614. The details 
of the coast from the mouth of the Hudson to Cape Cod we know 
were learned by Block in 1614. 

De Laet says that Block sailed from Cape Cod for home. (Page 
58 preceding.) The names from “ de Vlackehoeck ” (Cape Cod) 
northward to “ de Gebrokenhoeck ” are therefore taken from 
May’s voyage in 1611-12, and are mentioned in May’s journal. 
This portion of the map shows no effect of Captain Smith’s map, 
made in 1614 and published in 1616. The source of the seven 
names from “ Graef Willem’s Bay ” to “ Reiger’s Eylant ” does 
not appear — they are not mentioned in May’s journal —but the 
Maine coast had been coursed frequently before 1614. No simi¬ 
larity can be detected between the delineation of Lake Champlain 
and the St. Lawrence in map “ B ” and their delineation in Cham¬ 
plain’s maps of 1612 and 1613, but it is certain that map “ B ” 
contributes nothing about that region that was not known in 1614. 
These facts conduce strongly to the conclusion that the map was 
drawn in 1614, or if drawn later, represents the draftsman’s geo¬ 
graphical knowledge as of the year 1614. 


64 


Mr. Brodhead, who discovered the maps came to the same com 
elusion, and some years later, in his History of the State of New 
York, wrote: 

“ I think, however, that it was actually prepared two years 
before, from data furnished by Block immediately after his re¬ 
turn to Holland, and that it was exhibited to their High Mighti¬ 
nesses for the first time on the 11th of October, 1614. The 
Charter granted on that day to the Directors of New Netherland 
expressly refers to a ‘ Figurative map prepared by them ? which 
described the seacoasts between the 40th and 45th degrees of 
latitude. This the parchment map clearly does. It moreover 
defines New Netherland as lying between New France and Vir¬ 
ginia according to the description in the Charter. The map was 
probably presented a second time on the 18th of August, 1616, 
when the Directors of New Netherland exhibited their memorial 
for a further Charter, to which it was attached.” 

The Building of Fort Nassau in 1614 

The white men had so often abused the confidence of the red 
men in their first contact that while the Dutch were cultivating 
friendly relations with the Indians it was not safe for the 
Europeans to dwell on shore without protection. Christiaenssen 
therefore built at the site of Albany a rude fort within which 
those of his crew who camped ashore might rest in tolerable 
security or even spend the winter. 

De Laet, describing the various reaches of the Hudson River 
as far north as Albany, refers to the building of Fort Nassau 
(later Orange) at that point on Castle Island as follows: 

“ The fort was built here in the year 1614 upon an island on 
the west side of the river where a nation of savages dwells called 
the Mackwaes. . . . The fort was built in the form of a re¬ 

doubt, surrounded by a moat eighteen feet wide; it was mounted 
with two pieces of cannon and eleven pedereros, and the garrison 
consisted of ten or twelve men. Henderick Christiaenz, first 
commanded here and in his absence Jaques Elckens, on behalf of 
the company which in 1614 received authority from their High 
Mightinesses the States General. This fort w^as constantly occu¬ 
pied for three years after which it partly went into decay.” 
(Narr. New Neth. 47.) 

On the “ Carte Figurative ” which we have distinguished as 
“A” on page 61 preceding, the single word “ Nassou ” appears 



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at the site of Albany. On the ki Carte Figurative ” B, the site is 
marked with a description in Dutch which, translated, says: 
“ Fort of Nassou. Within the walls is 58 feet wide. The moat 
is 18 feet wide. The house inside the fort is 36 feet long and 26 
wide.” 

The erection of Fort Nassau in 1614, before October 11, is 
indicated in a “ Report and advice on the condition of New 
Netherland, drawn up from documents and papers placed by com¬ 
mission of the Assembly of XIX, dated 15th Deer. 1644, in the 
hands of the General Board of Accounts to examine the same, to 
make a digest thereof, and to advise the Assembly how the decay 
there can be prevented, population increased, agriculture advanced, 
and that country wholly improved for the Company’s benefits.” 
The report begins as follows: 

“ New Netherland extending from the South river, lying in 
34Y2 degrees, to Cape Malabar in the latitude of 41% degrees, 
was first frequented by the inhabitants of this country in the year 
1598, and especially by those of the Greenland Company, but 
without making any fixed settlements, only as a shelter in the 
winter. For which purpose they erected on the North and South 
river there two little forts against the incursions of the Indians. 
A charter was afterwards on the 11th October, 1614, granted by 
their High Mightinesses,” etc. (Docs. Bel. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. 
vol. 1, p. 149.) 

While the foregoing authorities seem to indicate the building 
of Fort Nassau in 1614, it must be admitted that there is also 
evidence to indicate either that the year was 1615 or that in 1615 
a better fort was built; for De Laet, already quoted as giving the 
date 1614, also says in his edition of 1625: 

“ Whereupon, in the year 1615, a redoubt or small fort was 
erected up the said river and occupied by a small garrison, of 
which we shall hereafter speak. Our countrymen have continued 
to make voyages thither each year.” 

And in a memoir concerning English encroachments on New 
Netherland, dated January 2, 1656, it is stated: 

“ In the year 1610 some merchants again sent a ship thither 
from this country and obtained afterwards from the High and 


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Mighty Lords States General a grant to resort and trade exclus¬ 
ively to those parts, to which end they likewise, in the year 1615, 
built on the North river, about the Manhattans, a redoubt or little 
fort, wherein was left a small garrison, some people usually re¬ 
maining there to carry on trade with the natives or Indians.” 
(Docs. Eel. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. I, 564.) 

That the words “ about the Manhattans ” do not necessarily 
mean on Manhattan Island may be inferred from the fact that the 
expression “ at the Manhattans ” was frequently used to designate 
the Hudson River region generally; and also from the fact that 
there is no indication of a fort on Manhattan Island on the two 
Cartes Figurative. 

The preponderance of evidence concerning the date of the erec¬ 
tion of the first fort appears to be in favor of 1614; for De Laet, 
when he mentions 1614, gives particulars concerning the width 
of the moat and the number of cannon, showing that when he 
wrote “ 1614 ” he was guided by precise information; and the 
“ Report and advice on the condition of New Netherland ” ex¬ 
pressly says that the forts on the Hudson and Delaware Rivers 
were erected before the granting of the charter of October 11, 
1614. This also harmonizes with the facts which go to show that 
the Carte Figurative “ B ” was drawn in 1614. 

Fort Nassau was occupied for three years. Wassenaer, speak¬ 
ing of the floods pouring into the upper Hudson, refers to “ great 
quantities of water running to the river, overflowing the adjoining 
country, which was the cause that Fort Nassau frequently lay 
under water and was abandoned.” 

Significance of the Year 1614 

From the foregoing we see that the year 1614 is a red-letter 
year in the history of the State of New York; for it was the year 
in which the duly chartered commerce of the Hudson River began ; 
the year in which the first ship was built in these waters; the year 
in which the first fort was built by the Dutch traders in the Hud¬ 
son valley, and the year which produced the first definite carto¬ 
graphical knowledge of New Netherland. The significance of 
this year is well expressed by Professor Henry Phelps Johnston, 
Professor of History in the College of the City of New York, in 


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a letter to the writer of this paper, dated January 6, 1913, from 
which we quote the following: 

“ lhat Yew York City — Yew Amsterdam — was first settled 
in 1626 is sufficiently well established, and a tercentenary 
celebration for this place will be appropriate in 1926. The 
same for Albany in 1924, the dates being given as correct or 
approximate. . . . 

“ Yew \ork, however, need not wait until 1926. We may ac¬ 
cept a year for commemoration which the Dutch themselves of 
that day regarded as the year of substantial beginnings, a year 
well known to readers and authors of Yew York histories — the 
year 1614. It is only necessary to be reminded that in that year 
the Dutch, following up Hudson’s discovery, established a right¬ 
ful claim, in their view, to a definite portion of this coast; that in 
the same year to this region they gave the name ‘ Yew Yether- 
land ’; that they presented a chart of it, laying out quite clearly 
the shore lines in this vicinity, distinguishing Manhattan for the 
first time as an island, identifying it by name and indicating 
such points as Sandy Hook and Hellgate by name; also showing 
that they had exploited Yew York harbor, the East River, the 
Brooklyn front and Long Island, as well as the adjoining Yew 
Jersey and Connecticut lines, and the islands in the bay, all evi¬ 
dently for the purposes of navigation and further enterprise; that 
in this year for the first time the States General of Holland 
officially recognized Yew Yetherland as a new region for Hol¬ 
landers to explore and utilize; that in this year thirteen merchants 
of Amsterdam and Hoorn, known by name, owning five ships, 
which with their skippers are also named, were combined as the 
* United Yew Yetherland Company 9 and received from the States 
General a charter granting them exclusive trade with their new 
American possessions for three years; that the trade they opened 
was followed up by them and others continuously; and that in 
that same year the first authorized proposal was made for the 
organization of the later ‘ West India Company ’ which there¬ 
after controlled Yew Yetherland and which grew and enlarged 
upon the experience and foundation of its predecessor and the 
pioneers of the time. On four subsequent occasions, in disputes 
with England and English settlers, this charter of 1614 was of¬ 
ficially cited as the earliest document on which the Dutch based 
their claims to this region. 

“As an undisputed date, 1614 may be said to mark ‘ the coming 
of the Dutch/ the year they came to stay in their own accustomed 
way, whether as exploiters, traders or occupiers. Within the next 
six years they accomplished one important result — a great one 


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in the history of this City; they had established the bay and 
mouth of the Hudson as a new trading destination in the new 
world. Wherever their ships might continue on their voyages, 
whether up the Hudson to Fort Orange, or up and down the 
coast, ‘ the mouth of the Mauritius/ Manhattan Harbor, was 
clearly a trader’s center or resort, a kind of ‘ port of entry,’ a 
known anchorage where shippers could overhaul and repair and 
whence they could hunt out points of exchange among the natives. 

“We have here the beginnings of commercial Hew York — 
the opening up of its bays and waters with their unrivalled ad¬ 
vantages to a mercantile marine. From 1614 to the present time, 
for three hundred years, the trade of this region, whether in 
Dutch, English or American hands, has been continuous — as con¬ 
tinuous in its infant years, from 1614 to 1626, as any distant 
trade of that period could be — as continuous as that with Vir¬ 
ginia or Brazil, or, on the part of England and Holland, with 
their then recently established trading posts in the East Indies. 

“ The source of the wealth and greatness of Hew York is her 
harbor. The earliest utilization is a primary fact in her history. 
The settlement of the City itself was a second step. The harbor 
was the making of the City. The year 1626 should be associated 
with the year 1614 and the years intervening. We must celebrate 
1626, but let us also in some appropriate way celebrate 1614 in 
1914. It might be made conspicuously a commercial and indus¬ 
trial commemoration.” 

Commerce Continued Until Permanent Settlement is Effected 

We have previously stated that Block does not appear to have 
returned to Hew Hetherland after his explorations in 1614; but 
the petition of August, 1616, before quoted, indicates that Chris- 
tiaenssen used the Onrust in 1615 and 1616 in these parts, and 
Wassenaer makes the following reference to more voyages: 

“ This aforesaid Hendrick Christiaenz, after Adriaen Block 
had dissolved partnership with him, made ten voyages thither, 
under a grant from the Lords States who granted him that privi¬ 
lege for the first opening up of the place. On the expiration of 
that privilege, this country was granted to the West India Com¬ 
pany, to draw their profits thence.” 

The formation of the Dutch West India Company, in 1621, was 
a project which had been considered for the past seven years. On 
July 18, 1614, the provinces of Holland and West Friesland 
adopted a memorial to the General Assembly of the States suggest- 


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iiig “ the formation of a general Company for the promotion of 
Commerce, Navigation and Interest of the Country, to carry on 
Trade on some Coasts of Africa and America.” (Docs. Del. Col. 
Hist. S. N. Y. I, 6.) On August 25, 1614, the States General 
“ Resolved, That the business of forming a General West India 
Company shall be undertaken to-morrow morning.” (Ibid. p. 7.) 
And on September 2, 16.14, they “ Resolved, That the affair of 
the West India Company shall be continued this afternoon.” 
(Ibid. p. 7.) The project had in view trade to the West Indies, 
Africa and Guinea; but it encountered so many objections from 
the East India Company, that its consummation was deferred, 
and it was not until June 3, 1621, that the company was actually 
chartered. Thus the continuity of the commerce was maintained 
until a permanent settlement was effected in 1624. 

What Constitutes “ Settlement? ” 

This brings us to the consideration of the question, what con¬ 
stitutes the “ settlement ” of a country. If we are to take a broad 
and sweeping view of the whole history of the region from Hud¬ 
son’s voyage to the present time, we might, perhaps, regard the 
settlement to have begun with the first coming of the Europeans, 
whether they actually remained continuously or whether they 
came and departed annually for a period of time. The best au¬ 
thorities, however, seem to regard such a use of the word “ settle¬ 
ment ” as loose and inexact. The Century Dictionary, reflecting 
the best use of the word by historians, clearly conveys the idea 
of permanence or continuance in its definitions of “ settlement.” 
The first definition of the verb “ settle,” in its transitive use, is: 

“ To place in a fixed or permanent position or condition; con¬ 
firm ; establish, as for residence or business.” 

More specifically, it says: 

“ To plant with inhabitants; colonize; people, as, the Puritans 
settled New England.” 

Used intransitively we have these definitions: 

“ To become set or fixed; assume a continuing, abiding or last¬ 
ing position, form, or condition,” etc. 

“ To establish a residence, take up permanent habitation or 
abode.” 


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In all such uses as to “ settle ” a question, or “ settle ” a date, or 
“ settle ” an account or a case in court, runs the idea of a per¬ 
manent and continuing condition. 

Visiting and trading in a country cannot be regarded as the 
settlement of that country unless there is permanent occupation. 
The annual visits of French fishermen to the banks of Newfound¬ 
land and their temporary stays in harbors of refuge did not con¬ 
stitute the settlement of Newfoundland. The series of voyages 
under the auspices of Raleigh, beginning in 1581, the short-lived 
Ralph Lane colony landed on Roanoke Island in 1585, the evanes¬ 
cent John White colony landed there in 1587, and the other visits 
during the next few years to the region within the limits of ancient 
Virginia did not constitute the settlement of Virginia. The settle¬ 
ment of Virginia, by common consent, was the permanent settle¬ 
ment of Jamestown in 1607, and was recognized as such in the 
Jamestown Tercentenary celebration in 1907. New England was 
the objective point of repeated voyages and a few attempts at 
settlement before 1620 — in 1602 Gosnold visited Cape Cod and 
built some huts, it is said, on Cuttyhunk; Weymouth visited Cape 
Cod and Maine in 1605; in 1607 the transitory Popham colony 
landed on the Maine coast; Jan Cornelisz. May spent the winter 
of 1611-12 on the New England coast, down as far as Cape Cod; 
in 1614 Capt. John Smith visited New England and on his map 
even gave the name of Plymouth to the neighborhood afterward 
settled by the Pilgrims — but these did not constitute the settle¬ 
ment of New England as the word settlement is understood. 
“ The Puritans settled New England ”— to repeat the quotation 
from the Century Dictionary, when the Pilgrims planted at Ply¬ 
mouth in 1620; and unless it can be demonstrated that there was 
the beginning of continuous occupation of New Netherland, at 
Manhattan Island or at the site of Albany or elsewhere, during the 
years we have been considering, it cannot be said that New Nether- 
land was yet “ settled.” 

Upon this point Mr. James A. Holden, State Historian, has 
expressed to the present writer his views upon the interpretation 
of the word “ settlement ” which may be summarized as follows: 

“ If this means the date when the first white man came to Man¬ 
hattan Island after the discovery of the river bv Hudson, 1610 


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would be nearer the mark. If it means the first settlement by 
fur-traders and barterers, 1614 would be the proper date. But 
if the word 1 settlement ’ is to be understood as I should take it, 
as something permanent and not temporary, then we must con¬ 
sider that the proper date is 1624. It was in 1626 that the Island 
of Manhattan was formally deeded to the Dutch by the Indians.” 

That no colony had been planted in Hew Netherland up to 1622 
is apparent from a letter written under date of the Hague, Feb¬ 
ruary 5, 1621, O. S. (1622 N. S.), by Sir Dudley Carleton, Eng¬ 
lish ambassador to the Netherlands, to the Lords of the Council, 
in reply to an inquiry from the latter, dated December 15, 1621. 
Sir Dudley wrote that he had made diligent inquiry of the Prince 
of Orange, some of the States and various merchants, and could 
not learn that the Hollanders had planted any colony in Hew 
Netherland. All he could learn was that the Hollanders had been 
trading there for several years and had several factors there resi¬ 
dent among the savages trading with them; and that there was a 
ship at Amsterdam bound for those parts: 

“I cannot learne of anie Colonie eyther already planted there 
by these people or so much as intended; and I have this further 
reason to believe there is none, because within these few months 
divers inhabitants of this country to a considerable number of 
familyes have been suters unto me to procure them a place of 
habitation amongst his Majesties subjects in those parts.” (Docs. 
Eel. Col. Hist. S. H. Y. Ill, 7.) 

Sir Dudley apparently refers to the fact that in February, 1622, 
fifty or sixty families of Walloons and French residing in the 
Netherlands applied to the King of Great Britain for permission 
to settle in Virginia and with the consent of the Virginia com¬ 
pany the petition was granted on certain conditions. (Docs. Eel. 
Col. Hist. S. H. Y. Ill, 9-10.) 

Permanent Settlement of Fort Orange in 1624 

A decade of commerce prepared the way for the planting of 
the first permanent colony in Hew Netherland at the site of 
Albany in 1624, and another on Manhattan Island in 1626. This 
culmination of events was so important, and so much attention 
will be attracted to it by the Commercial Tercentenary anniver¬ 
sary, that it is desirable to review the evidence concerning these 
dates. 


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It may be taken as a general principle of historical interpreta¬ 
tion, that, other things being equal, the reliability of testimony 
varies proportionately with the distance of the testimony from the 
event in point of time. We shall cite, therefore, in support of 
the date 1624 for the settlement of Fort Orange, Wassenaer’s 
“ Historisch Verhael ” printed in that year. 

Fully to understand the significance of Wassenaer’s dates, it 
should be explained that the Verhael was printed in semi-annual 
parts. Thus, in the original Dutch, the months of October, 1623, 
to March, 1624, both inclusive, are covered by 156 pages, with a 
preface dated June 1, 1624. The months of April, 1625, to Sep¬ 
tember, 1624, inclusive, are covered with 157 pages with a preface 
dated December 1, 1624. The general chronology of the text is 
indicated by the years printed in the top margin. 

Wassenaer, in the part prefaced under date of December 1, 
1624, says of a privateer named the Maeckereel: 

“ The yacht Maeckereel sailed out last year on the 16th of 
June and arrived yonder on the 12th of December. It was in¬ 
deed somewhat late, but it wasted time in the savage islands, to 
catch a fish, and did not catch it, so ran the luck. The worthy 
Daniel van Krieckebeeck, for brevity called Beeck, was super¬ 
cargo on it and so did his duty that he was thanked.” (Narr. 
New Neth. 76.) 

In the foregoing quotation, “ out ” means from Netherlands; 
“ yonder ” means to New Netherland; “ to catch a fish ” means to 
catch a Spanish prize; and “ last year” clearly means 1623, for 
Wassenaer certainly could not have known on December 1, 1624, 
of the arrival of a ship in the Hudson River on December 12, 
1624. 

It being clear that the Maeckereel arrived in December, 1623, 
we now proceed to show how that proves the date of the arrival 
of the first Colony in 1624. 

Wassenaer, in the same part prefaced December 1, 1624 — 
embodying information received after the publication of his pre¬ 
vious part, prefaced June 1, 1624 — says: 

“ The West India Company being chartered to navigate these 
rivers, did not neglect to do so, but equipped in the spring a ves¬ 
sel of 130 lasts called the Nieu Nederlandt, whereof Cornells 


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J acobz May of Hoorn was skipper, with a company of 30 families, 
mostly Walloons, to plant a Colony there. They sailed in the 
beginning of March, and directing their course by the Canary 
Islands steered towards the Wild Coast and gained the west wind 
which luckily took them in the beginning of May into the river 
called first Rio de Montagnes, now the River Mauritius* lying 
in 401/2 degrees. He found a Frenchman lying in the mouth of 
the river who would erect the arms of the King of France there; 
but the Hollanders would not permit it, forbidding it by commis¬ 
sion from the Lords States General and the Directors of the West 
India Company, and in order not to be frustrated therein, and 
with the assistance of those of the yacht Maeckereel which had 
lain above, they caused a yacht of two guns to be manned and 
convoyed the Frenchman out of the river. . . . This being 

done, the ship sailed up to the Maykans, 44 leagues, and they 
built and completed a fort named Orange with four bastions, on 
an island by them called Castle Island. They forthwith put the 
spade to the ground and began to plant, and before the Maeckereel 
sailed, the grain was nearly as high as a man, so that they are 
bravely advanced.” 

As the Maeckereel arrived in the Hudson River in December, 

1623, and was found here by the Hew Hetherland which arrived 
in May, it is manifest that the Hew Hetherland arrived in May, 

1624, not May, 1623. The date 1624 is confirmed by the fact that 
the date “ 1624 ” is printed in the margin of the original Dutch 
edition of Wassenaer, and the further fact that under the head¬ 
ing of February, 1624, Wassenaer foretold the sending of the 
colony, saying that the Dutch were “ intending now to plant a 
colony among the Maikans.” 

There is a great deal more evidence to confirm the date of 
1624, but lack of space forbids its elaboration. Weise, author 
of the History of Albany, and other painstaking historians, 
accept that date. One of the ablest brief monographs on this 
subject, written by a man of exceptional ability and opportunity, 
is a paper read before the Hew York Society of the Founders 
and Patriots of America, March 18, 1897, by George Rogers 
Howell of Albany, State Archivist, entitled “ The Date of the 
Settlement of the Colony of Hew York ” and printed by Charles 
Van Benthuysen & Sons of Albany. He says of Wassenaer’s 

* This was the Hudson River, called Mauritius after Prince Maurice of 
Orange. 



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account: “This narrative as to date is so explicit as to fix the 
date of the first settlement beyond all question.” 

De Laet in 1630, the Journal of New Netherland written in 
1641-46 (Docs. Eel. Col. Hist. S. N. Y. I, 181), Van der Donck 
in 1649 (ibid. 283) and others have referred to the building of 
forts, etc., in 1623 or “ since 1623,” but one statement has evi¬ 
dently been the child of its predecessor, and all based either on 
the preparations made in 1623 for the colony despatched in 
1624, or on the specific date of the sailing of the Maeckereel in 
1623. But by the canon of historical interpretation previously 
laid down, these statements by later writers cannot compare in 
acceptability with the testimony of Wassenaer, who, being equal 
or superior to the others in learning, wrote contemporaneously 
with the event described and with explicitness. Jameson’s foot¬ 
note “ of 1623 ” on page 75 of his Narratives of New Netherland 
is not warranted by the text to which he refers. 

Mr. Paltsits, in a communication to the present writer, speak¬ 
ing of the date of the first settlement of New Netherland, says: 

“ The matter is greatly involved and has required the finest 
kind of historical criticism to run down the errors to their sources, 
in which even interpolations have been discovered in a later 
verbiage derived from De Laet. 

“ The first permanent colony arrived in New Netherland in 
1624 (not 1623, as so many writers give the year). This was the 
colony that founded Fort Orange (Albany).” 

Commercial Prosperity in 1624-1625 

The colony at Fort Orange flourished from the start, and when 
the New Netherland returned to Holland the same year, its news 
was recorded by Wassenaer as follows: 

“As regards the prosperity of New Netherland, we learn by 
the arrival of the ship whereof Jan May of Hoorn was skipper, 
that everything there was in good condition. The colony began to 
advance bravely and to live in friendship with the natives. The 
fur or other trade remains in the West India Company, others 
being forbidden to trade there. . . . This voyage 500 otter 

skins and 1500 beavers and a few other skins were brought 
thither, which were sold in four parcels for twenty-eight thou¬ 
sand some hundred guilders.” 

Elsewhere Wassenaer gives the date of sale as December 20, 


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1624. De Laet in his Jaerlyck Verhael records the joint cargoes 
of two ships returning this year as having contained 4,000 
beavers and 700 otters which sold for 25,000 to 27,000 guilders. 

De Laet’s Jaerlyck Verhael also records the receipt of 5,295 
heavers and 463 otters from New Netherland in 1625 which sold 
for 35,825 guilders. 

Wassenaer says that “ Cornells May of Hoorn was the first 
Director there in 1624; Willem van Hulst was the second in the 
year 1625.” (Narr. New Neth. 84.) 

The Colony Reinforced in 1625 

The ships returning to the Netherlands from the Hudson car¬ 
ried profitable cargoes and encouraging reports of the prosperity 
of the Colony at Fort Orange and in April, 1625, four ships 
were despatched from Holland with forty-five persons, and 103 
head of live stock for the new plantation. Wassenaer described 
the expedition as follows: 

“ Though good care was taken by the Directors of the West 
India Company in the spring to provide everything for the colony 
in Virginia, by us called New Netherland, on the river Mauritius 
near the Maykans, an extraordinary shipment was sent thither 
to strengthen it with what was needful as follows: 

a As the country is well adapted for agriculture and the raising 
of everything that is produced here, the aforesaid gentlemen re¬ 
solved to take advantage of the circumstance and to provide the 
place with many necessaries; through the worthy Pieter Evertsen 
Hulst, who undertook to ship thither, at his risk, whatever was 
asked of him, to wit, 103 head of live stock — stallions, mares, 
bulls and cows — for breeding and multiplying, besides all the 
hogs and sheep that they thought expedient to send thither; and 
to distribute these in two ships of 140 lasts, in such a manner 
that thev should be well foddered and attended to. Each animal 
has its own stall, .with a floor of three feet of sand, arranged as 
comfortably as any stall here. Each animal has its respective 
servant who attends to it and knows what he is to get if he de¬ 
livers it there alive. All suitable forage is there, such as oats, 
hay and straw, and what else is useful. 

“ Country people have also joined the expeditions, who take 
with them all furniture proper for the dairy; all sorts of seed, 
ploughs, and agricultural implements are also present, so that 
nothing is wanting. 


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“ What is most remarkable is, that nobody in the two ships 
can discover where the water is stowed for these cattle. In order 
to use the same plan another time if needful, I shall here add it: 
The above-named manager caused a deck to be constructed in the 
ship. Beneath this were stowed in each ship three hundred tuns 
of fresh water which was pumped up and thus distributed among 
the cattle. On this deck lay the ballast, and thereupon stood the 
horses and bulls, and thus there was nothing wanting. 

“ He added the third ship as an extra, so that, should the voy¬ 
age, which is ordinarily made in six weeks, continue longer, 
nothing should be wanting and he should be able to fulfil his 
contract. ... In company with these goes a fast sailing yacht 
at the risk of the Directors. 

“ In the aforesaid vessels also go six completely equipped fami¬ 
lies, with some single persons, so that 45 new comers are taken 
out to remain there.” (Harr. Hew Heth. 79-80.) 

In July, 1625, a small ship arrived in Holland laden with 
furs and bringing favorable news of the crops and good order in 
Hew Hetherland; but the vessels with the cattle had not reached 
the Hudson when the ship left. In Hovember, 1625, however, 
a ship returned to Holland, laden with peltries, and reported the 
safe arrival of the cattle ships. “ Only two animals died on the 
passage. This gave great satisfaction to the freighter who had 
managed the transaction,” says Wassenaer, who gives further 
particulars as follows: 

“ These cattle were, on their arrival, first landed on Hut 
Island,* three miles up the river, where they remained a day or 
two. There being no means of pasturing them there, they were 
shipped in sloops and boats to the Manhattes right opposite the 
said island. Being put out to pasture here, they throve well but 
afterward full twenty in all died. The opinion is that they had 
eaten something bad from uncultivated soil. But they went in 
the middle of September to meadow grass as good and as long as 
could be desired.” 

Ho specific mention is made concerning the disposition of 
families who came over in 1625, but as Wassenaer says they 
were for the colony “ near the Maykans,” that is, the Mohawks, 
it is to be presumed that they all went up to Fort Orange. 
Whether the cattle were taken up the river after September, or 
whether they were left on Manhattan during the winter is not 


* Governor’s Island in New York Harbor. 



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stated. Mr. Paltsits’ view is expressed in the following passage 
in a communication to the writer: 

“ The second set of colonists arrived in 1625, and on the way 
to Fort Orange stopped a few days at Noten (now Governor’s ) 
Island to pasture the cattle, but the cattle were on that island 
only a day or two when they were removed to Manhattan to pas¬ 
ture and the colonists went off to Fort Orange. The cattle were 
on Manhattan only a few weeks; some died from poisonous herbs 
and the remainder were taken up the Hudson to Fort Orange.” 

Permanent Settlement of New Amsterdam in 1626 

Upon the facade of the New Municipal Building in New York 
City is the inscription “ New Amsterdam MDCXXVI,” the date 
of the permanent settlement of Manhattan Island and the crown¬ 
ing event of the series which we have been discussing. 

On December 19, 1625, Peter Minuit and a fully equipped 
colonial government set sail from Amsterdam on the ship Sea 
Mew, commanded by Skipper Adriaen Joris. Being detained by 
ice, the Sea Mew did not clear the Texel till January 9, 1626. 
Evidently the ship took a roundabout course, for the voyage, 
usually made in seven or eight weeks, according to Wassenaer 
(Narr. New Neth. 68) occupied four months, and Minuit landed 
May 4, 1626. (Ibid. 87.) 

What happened between May 4 and September 23 is best told 
in the words of an extraordinary document which may be called 
the Certificate of Birth of New York City, namely, the Schagen 
Letter. On November 4, 1626, the ship Arms of Amsterdam 
arrived at Amsterdam with the news of the purchase of Man¬ 
hattan Island and the planting of New Amsterdam. The very 
next day Peter Schagen addressed to “ Messieurs the States Gen¬ 
eral, in The Hague,” the following letter (facsimile in Wilson’s 
Memorial History of New York): 

“ High Mighty Sirs: 

“ Here arrived yesterday the ship the Arms of Amsterdam 
which sailed from New Netherland out of the Mauritius Biver 
on September 23. They report that our people there are of good 
courage and live peaceably. The women, also, have borne chil¬ 
dren there. They have bought the Island Manhattes from the 


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wild men for the value of sixty guilders,* is 11,000 morgen in 
extent. They sowed all their grain in the middle of May and 
harvested it in the middle of August. Thereof being samples of 
summer grain such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, canary 
seed, small beans and flax. The cargo of the aforesaid ship is: 
7246 beaver skins, 178% otter skins, 675 otter skins, 48 mink 
skins, 36 wild-cat (lynx) skins, 33 minks, 34 rat skins. Many 
logs of oak and nutwood. 

“ In Amsterdam, November 5, Ao. 1626. 

“ Your High Might’s Obedient 

“ P. ScHAGEN.” 

De Laet’s Jaerlyck Verhael states that 7,258 beavers and 857 
otters, etc., received in 1626, sold for 45,050 guilders. 

Wassenaer, under November, 1626, gives further particulars 
as follows: 

“ The Colony is now established on the Manhates, where a fort 
has been staked out by Master Kryn Frederycks, an engineer. It 
is planned to be of large dimensions. . . . The counting house 
there is kept in a stone building thatched with reed; the other 
houses are of the bark of trees. Each has his own house. The 
Director and Koopman live together. There are 30 ordinary 
houses on the east side of the river, which runs nearly north and 
south. The Honorable Peter Minuit is Director there at present; 
Jan Lempou Schout; Sebastiaen Jansz. Crol and Jan Huych 
comforters of the sick, who, whilst awaiting a clergyman, reads 
to the commonalty there on Sundays texts of Scripture and the 
commentaries. Francois Molemaecker is busy building a horse- 
mill, over which shall be constructed a spacious room sufficient 
to accommodate a large congregation, and then a tower is to be 
erected where the bells brought from Porto Pico will he hung. 

“ The council there administers justice in criminal matters as 
far as imposing fines but not as far as corporal punishment. 
Should it happen that anyone deserves that, he must be sent to 
Holland with his sentence. . . . Everyone there who fills no pub¬ 
lic office is busy about his own affairs. Men work there as in Hol¬ 
land. One trades upwards, southwards and northwards; another 
builds houses; the third farms. Each farmer has his farmstead 
on the land purchased by the Company, which also owns the cows; 
but the milk remains to the profit of the farmer. He sells it to 
those of the people who receive their wages for work every week. 

* Sixty guilders usually stated to be equivalent to $24. In 1903, the 
New York Title Guarantee and Trust Company reckoned that if the Indians 
had invested that $24 at 6% compound interest, it would have amounted in 
1903 to $310,470,286.80. 



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The houses of the Hollanders now stand outside the fort, but 
when that is completed, they will all repair within so as to gar¬ 
rison it and be secure from sudden attack. . . . When the fort 

staked out at the Manhates is completed, it is to be named 
Amsterdam.” 

That it was designed to make the Manhattan settlement the 
chief center of Hew Netherland and to draw in the colonists from 
the Delaware River on the south and Fort Orange on the north 
is shown by Wassenaer under the same date of November, 1626. 

Of Fort Nassau on the Delaware River he says: 

“ Those of the South river will abandon their fort and come 
hither. . . . The fort at the South river is already vacated, in 

order to strengthen the Colony. Trading there is carried on only 
in yachts, in order to avoid expense. 7 ’ 

Of Fort Orange he says: 

“At Fort Orange, the most northerly point at which the Hol¬ 
landers traded, no more than fifteen or sixteen men will remain. 
The remainder will come down. . . .” 

Here Wassenaer interjects an account of a war in 1626 be¬ 
tween the Mohawks and Mohicans, in which Commander Kriecke- 
beeck went with the Mohicans. Krieckebeeck and three of his 
men were killed. Wassenaer continues: 

“ There being no commander, Pieter Barentsen assumed com¬ 
mand of Fort Orange by order of Director Minuit. There were 
eight families there and ten or twelve seamen in the Company’s 
service. The families were to leave there this year,— the fort to 
remain garrisoned by sixteen men without women — in order to 
strengthen with people the colony near the Manhates who are 
becoming more accustomed to the strangers.” 

Concerning the authentic date of the settlement of Manhattan 
Island, the late Gen. James Grant Wilson, author of the Memorial 
History of New York, wrote to the present writer shortly before 
his death: “ The first settlement of the City was not in 1613 
but thirteen vears later, in 1626.” 

Mr. Robert H. Kelby, Librarian of the venerable New York 
Historical Society, writes: “All the documents published and 
the standard histories of New York show conclusively that Man- 




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hattan Island was first permanently settled by the Dutch in 1626. 
The visits of transient traders prior to 1626 should not be 
regarded as the first permanent settlement of the island.” 

We have previously quoted Prof. Henry P. Johnston, Pro¬ 
fessor of History of the College of the City of Hew York, and 
Mr. James A. Holden, State Historian, to the same effect. 

Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits, formerly State Historian, concurs 
with these emphatic words: 

“ Ho settlements whatever were made on Manhattan Island by 
Europeans until its occupation by Pieter Minuit and his colony 
in May, 1626. The tercentenary of the occupation of Manhattan 
by the white race should be held in May, 1926, or its purchase 
from the Indians by the Dutch West India Company may be 
celebrated in the summer of 1926. . . . These data and con¬ 

clusions* are based wholly upon an intimate study of the original 
source materials — the only primary sources known for the early 
history of the City and the beginning of the Dutch settlements 
in Hew Hetherland. I may add that I have been engaged almost 
daily for over a year and a half in studying the original ma¬ 
terials related to the history of Manhattan Island during the 
Dutch Regime.” 

Having brought this outline history down to the founding of 
Hew Amsterdam, we may let the narrative rest. It only remains 
to say — again on the authority of our learned and helpful 
friend Wassenaer — that two years later, the European popula¬ 
tion of Manhattan Island was “ 270 souls, men, women, and 
children;” and on the authority of a letter by Isaac de Rasieres, 
that the native population of “ the old Manhattans ” was “ about 
200 to 300 strong, women and men, under different chiefs whom 
they call Sackimas.” 

From this little beginning has grown a City of nearly 6,000,000 
population — almost equal to that of the Hetherlandsf to-day — 
of which it may be said, in the words of the great Hebrew 
prophet Isaiah: 

" She is a Mart of Nations. . . . The crowning City, whose 
merchants are princes, whose trafficker's are the honorable of the 
earth.” 


* Referring to all quotations from him in the present paper, 
t The population of the Netherlands January 1, 1912, was 5,900,000. The 
population of New York City, January 1, 1914 (World Almanac) was 
5,583,871, and including its Westchester and New Jersey suburbs 7,383,871. 




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SECOND REPORT 


OF THE 


New York 

Commercial Tercentenary 

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Commission 


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CONTENTS 


Chap. Page 

Letter of Transmittal. 5 

I. Events Commemorated. 7 

II. Organization of Commission. 8 

III. Finances. 17 

IV. Official Insignia. 19 

Official Medal. 19 

Official Badge.' 21 

Official Flag.:. 21 

Official Poster. 22 

V. Ceremonies at Fort Wadsworth. 23 

VI. Inaugural Ceremonies at Hotel Astor. 27 

Address by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. 27 

Address by Fillmore Jackson. 28 

Address by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon. 29 

Address by Hon. A. van de Sande Bakhuyzen. 33 

Address by Mayor Joseph W. Stevens. 40 

Address by Dr. Tunis G. Bergen. 50 

Address by Hon. Theodore P. Shonts. 51 

Address by Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown. 55 

Address by Edwin H. Blashfield. 59 

Other Addresses. 61 

VII. Local Festivals. 63 

At Curtis Athletic Field. 63 

At Brooklyn Athletic Field. 65 

At Crotona Athletic Field. 68 

In Central Park. 69 

At Dongan Hills Fair Grounds. 74 

Hallowe’en Festival at Harlem. 74 

VIII. Religious Services. 78 

Mayor John Purroy Mitchel’s Address. 79 

IX. Music Festival!. 82 

X. Illuminations. 85 

XI. Automobile Parade. 87 

Prizes. 92 

XII. Metropolitan Museum of Art Reception. 95 

Address by Chauncey M. Depew . 96 

XIII. Historical and Commercial Parade. 108 

Prizes. 114 

XIV. Commercial Exhibits. 115 

Opening Ceremonies. 116 

Old New York. 116 

Indian Exhibit. 118 

Commercial Exhibits. 119 

Presentation of Medals to Cuban Officials. 120 

XV. Members of Commission. 128 


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ILLUSTRATIONS 

Facing 

Plate page 

1. Official Medal . 8 

2. Official Badge . 16 

3. Official Flag. 24 

4. Official Poster. 32 

5. Indians Trading With the Dutch. 40 

6. Folk Dance, Curtis Athletic Field. 48 

7. Wand Drill, Brooklyn Athletic Field. 56 

8. Indian Village, Crotona Field. 64 

9. Central Park Pageant, General View. 72 

10. Central Park Pageant, Dutch Settlers. 80 

11. Harlem Pageant, the Melting Pot. 96 

12. Commercial Exhibits, Grand Central Palace, General View. 112 

13. Group of Indians at Grand Central Palace. 128 


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State of New York 


No. 56 


IN ASSEMBLY 

APRIL 12, 1915 


New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 

Incorporated by Chapter 3 1 3 of the Laws of 1 91 3 of the 
State of New York to Celebrate in 1914 the 300th 
Anniversary of the Beginning of the Chartered 
Commerce of New York 


President Secretary 

GEN. HOWARD CARROLL EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, L.H.D 

Presiding Vice-Presidents Assistant Secretary 

HON. ALTON B. PARKER A. E. MacKINNON 

GEORGE F. KUNZ, Ph.D. Sc.D. 

Headquarters, No. 134 Nassau Street, New York 

April 12, 1915. 

Hon. Thaddeus C. Sweet, Speaker of the Assembly, Albany, 
N. Y. : 

Sir.— As required by chapter 313 of the Laws of 1913, I have 
the honor to transmit herewith the second report of the New York 
Commercial Tercentenary Commission to the Legislature of the 
State of New York. 

Yours respectfully, 

GEORGE F. KUNZ, 

Acting President. 

E. IL LI ALL, 

Secretary. 

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THE 

NEW YORK COMMERCIAL TERCENTENARY 


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The Events Commemorated 

Beginning on March 2-7, 1914, and ending on November 21, 
1914, the three hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the 
regularly chartered commerce of what is now the State of New 
\ ork was celebrated in the City of New York by a number of cere¬ 
monies of different kinds held from time to time under the auspices 
of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission. The 
history of the events thus commemorated has been set forth at 
length in the first report of the Commission to the Legislature, 
transmitted last year, but may briefly be recapitulated. 

On March 27, 1614, the States General of the United Nether¬ 
lands granted a general charter to the people of that country, prom¬ 
ising to grant an exclusive charter for four voyages to anyone who 
should discover new passages havens, countries or places good for 
trading. During the summer of that year, certain merchants of 
Amsterdam and Hoorn sent out five ships to New Netherland, and 
upon making report to the States General of their discoveries, were 
granted, on October 11, 1614, the exclusive privilege of trading to 
this region for four voyages. This was the beginning of the regu¬ 
larly chartered commerce of New York. After this trading had 
continued ten years, the Dutch made a permanent settlement in 
1624 at what is now Albany, and in 1626 New Amsterdam was 
permanently settled on Manhattan Island. Although St. Augus¬ 
tine, Fla., and Jamestown, Ya., were settled before 1614, they had 
developed no regular commerce prior to that year, so that 1914 was 
really the tricentennial of the beginning of the regularly chartered 
commerce of the United States. 


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Organization of the Commission 

To arrange for the suitable observance of the completion of three 
centuries of American commerce, the late Mayor Gaynor of Yew 
York in December, 1912, appointed a Citizens’ Committee, which 
was subsequently enlarged and became incorporated as the Yew 
York Commercial Tercentenary Commission by a special act of the 
Legislature, chapter 313 of the Laws of 1913. The Commission 
consists of the persons named in the Charter, the Mayors of all the 
Cities of the State ex-officio, the Presidents of the incorporated 
Yillages of the Hudson Valley ex-officio, and persons associated 
with them by appointment by the Governor of the State or the 
Mayor of the City of Yew York. 

The names of the officers and members of the Commission at the 
culmination of the celebration in the fall of 1914 are given at the 
end of this report. 

The Commission organized under its charter May 14, 1913. 
when the Trustees elected the following officers: 

President, Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Presiding Vice-President, Hon. Herman Ridder. 

Treasurer, Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary, Edward Hagaman Hall. 

Assistant Secretary, A. E. MacKinnon. 

On April 21, 1914, Mr. Vanderbilt resigned as President and 
Vice-President Ridder acted as President until the annual election 
on May 27, 1914, when he was elected President. On July 1, 
however, he was obliged by ill health to resign. On the same day, 
Gen. Howard Carroll, who w 7 as then abroad, was elected President 
and has so continued until the present time. 

On May 27, 1914, Col. Henry W. Sackett was designated as 
Presiding Vice-President, but on account of recent absence abroad, 
during which he met with an automobile accident, he was unable to 
serve, and the Hon. Alton B. Parker and Dr. George F. Kunz 
were designated Presiding Vice-Presidents in the order mentioned. 



Obverse 



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Reverse 

Official Medal See Pao-e 19 










Hew York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 


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Owing to the absence of Gen. Carroll and Judge Parker from town 
much of the time during the summer of 1914, the chief labors of 
the acting presidency devolved upon Dr. Kunz. 

On August 3, 1914, Governor Glynn consented to be one of two 
Honorary Presidents and on August 10 Mayor Mitchel consented 
to be the other. 

I he organisation and execution of the plans for the celebration 
were beset with an extraordinary series of impediments which 
nearly resulted in the abandonment of the commemoration alto¬ 
gether. The first misfortune to befall the Commission was the 
death on September 10, 1913, of Mayor Gaynor, who appointed 
the original Citizens Committee and heartily sympathized with 
the Commission’s purposes. During the remainder of the year, 
under the incumbency of Mayor Ardolph L. Kline, nothing prac¬ 
tically could be done in the way of arranging for the celebration 
for lack of an appropriation by the City. The early part of Mayor 
Mitch el’s incumbency, beginning January 1 , 1914, was naturally 
taken up largely by the organization of his new administration. 
He and his colleagues lent a friendly ear, however, to the requests 
of the Commission, and there was a prospect of a liberal appropria¬ 
tion by the City, when a series of unusually heavy snowstorms 
occurred, imposing upon the City an unexpended expense of about 
$2,500,000 ; and after that, any considerable appropriation by the 
City was out of the question. It was not until almost the end of 
the celebration, in October, that the City finally gave only $10,000. 

Application to the Legislature for funds had been delayed in 
the hope that the City appropriation might first be obtained, but 
as time slipped by without results in the latter direction, appli¬ 
cation was made to the Legislature in March, 1914, and on the 
19th of that month Senator Frawley introduced a bill appropriat¬ 
ing $500,000 for the purpose. The bill failed to pass, and then 
an effort was made to secure an appropriation in the Supply Bill. 

Meanwhile, the general situation was further complicated by 
the landing of United States troops at Vera Cruz on April 21, 
1914, and our country was in fact in a state of war. There was a 
condition of public suspense and uncertainty which affected the 
general business situation which had a direct and depressing 

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influence on a celebration which was designed to appeal largely to 
the business interests for support. 

The Legislature adjourned without passing the appropriation 
bill and was reconvened in extraordinary session. The Supply 
Bill which was then passed and which contained an item appro¬ 
priating $100,000 for the celebration, became a law by the Gov¬ 
ernor’s signature June 10, 1914, and that was the first definite 
provision of any considerable sum for the celebration. 

The lateness of this appropriation was a great handicap. All 
previous plans and arrangements had been tentative and uncer¬ 
tain; and now it was necessary to readjust them, to reduce their 
scope, and to make preparations hastily for such celebration as was 
to be had. 

Then came the still greater blow of the European War. On 
July 28 Austria declared war on Servia, and on August 1 the gen¬ 
eral European conflagration broke out with the declaration of war 
by Germany against Russia. This had a three-fold effect upon the 
celebration. In the first place, the instinctive sympathies of the 
American people with the unfortunate nations abroad would not 
permit of a festive spirit here. In the next place, general busi¬ 
ness was so seriously affected that there was not the expected 
response to the invitations to participate in the commercial parades 
and commercial exhibits. And thirdly, it made impossible any 
general appeal to the people for subscription funds. 

In view of the situation, the Trustees on August 5, 1914, dis¬ 
continued all salaries except a few necessary ones, pending a con¬ 
sideration of the question of postponing the celebration, and on 
August 12, adopted the following resolution: 

Whereas, The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commis¬ 
sion views with the deepest sorrow the unhappy conflict between 
European nations with all of which the American people entertain 
friendly relations, and feels that a proper respect for the human 
sympathies which are stirred by their misfortunes dictates that it 
should refrain at the present time, so far as possible, from carry¬ 
ing out those public manifestations of rejoicing which it had 
planned to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the be¬ 
ginning of the chartered commerce of New York; therefore be it 

Resolved, That until the further order of the Board of Trus¬ 
tees, all of the Commission's proposed forms of celebration be post- 


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poned, except tlie eight children's gatherings under the direction 
of the Local Festivals Committee especially authorized by resolu¬ 
tion of August 5, and the commercial exhibits, commercial parade, 
illuminations and necessary accessories, for which foregoing 
features the material preparations are so far advanced that they 
cannot be postponed without undue hardship to the expecting 
participants. 

Ihe determination to carry out the forms of celebration men¬ 
tioned in the foregoing resolution was dictated by two considera¬ 
tions: One was that postponement for a period which could not be 
determined in advance would involve financial hardships upon 
parties who had made preparations for the celebration. The other 
was the hope that the celebration, with its exhibitions, might serve 
to stimulate business and in a measure counteract the depression 
caused by the war. 

It was under those circumstances, with their attendant diffi¬ 
culties and perplexities, that the celebration was carried out. The 
Trustees feel that while it did not realize their expectations and 
desires, it was creditable to the State and City. 

The Commission was early organized into Committees for the 
purpose of carrying out the various details of the celebration. 
First in order of operation was 

The Plan and Scope Committee of which General Howard 
Carroll was Chairman. This committee elaborated a plan of cele¬ 
bration which was intended to cover the period between the two 
historic dates, March 27 and October 11. The idea of holding 
different events of different natures in different parts of the City 
at intervals during such a considerable period was untried in New 
York City and was designed to accomplish several good results. 
It tended to avoid the congestion of traffic and interruption 
of business which have characterized previous celebrations concen¬ 
trated within a short period; it was calculated to promote con¬ 
venience and effectiveness of execution by the holding of certain 
events at seasons both appropriate to the events and convenient to 
the participants; and it was intended to make the celebration more 
democratic by carrying it to the people themselves in different 
parts of the town instead of obliging the people to go long distances 
to see the celebration at one place. For reasons before stated, 


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many features originally planned were finally omitted, blit the 
general theory was carried out. As a result of this distribution 
of events, and at the same time the absorbed attention of the press 
to the European War, the celebration did not occupy as much 
space in the columns of the newspapers as it otherwise might have 
done; but the purpose of bringing the meaning of the celebration 
to the people was successful. From the estimates of the ('hair- 
men of committees we calculate that there were 29,950 men, 
women, boys and girls participating in the various events and that 
there were in addition 1,771,500 spectators. 

The principal working committees which carried out the plan 
of celebration were as follows: 

The Auditing Committee, consisting of ITon. X. Taylor Phil¬ 
lips, Chairman; Hon. William R. Willcox and Hon. Arthur J. 
O’Keeffe, whose work is mentioned in chapter III. 

The Commercial Exhibits Committee, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter. 
Chairman, whose work is described in chapter XIV. 

The Contracts Committee, of which Hon. Robert L. Harrison 
was Chairman, passed upon the form of all contracts authorized 
by the Trustees. Mr. Henry L. Bogert was especially helpful on 
this committee. It may be noted here for the benefit of future 
commissions that any contract involving an expenditure of State 
funds was required to contain a clause stating that the contract 
did not become effective until approved by the State Comptroller. 

The Design and Decoration Committee , of which Mr. Charles 
R. Lamb was Chairman, was appointed to pass upon the accepta¬ 
bility of designs and decorations used in the celebration. 

The Educational Institutions (-ommittee, of which Dr. Elmer 
Ellsworth Brown, Chancellor of Xew York University, was 
Chairman, performed much work in formulating a plan not only 
for observances in institutions of learning, but also for an 
exchange of professorships with foreign institutions with a view 
to promoting commercial education, and the establishment of a 
College of Commerce in Xew York City. Dr. John H. Finley, 
President of the State University and State Commissioner of 
Education, was a helpful adviser to this committee. For lack of 
funds, it was impracticable to carry out the splendid conceptions 


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of this committee. The educational side of the celebration, how¬ 
ever, was not neglected. The Commission printed 5,000 copies 
of a critical historical pamphlet, most of the copies of which were 
distributed to the teachers of the public schools and were used as 
the source of material for local observance in the schools. The 
Commission secured a special edition of 500 copies of the City 
History Club’s “ Historical Guide to the City of H ew York ”— a 
sort of “Baedeker” of the City — comprising 488 pages and 
many maps and illustrations, and distributed them to the public 
officials and libraries. The Hew York Public Library issued a 
valuable “ Reading List” of 40 pages entitled “ Hew York City 
and the Development of Trade.” In October the Commission, 
with the co-operation of the Board of Education, distributed 
among the public schools 840,000 copies of the program of coming 
events, and on October 20, 1914, the Hon. Thomas W. Churchill, 
President of the Board, and Dr. William H. Maxwell, City 
Superintendent of Schools, addressed a circular to the principals 
of all the schools, calling attention to the celebration and continu¬ 
ing: “ You are requested to address the pupils of your school at 
the assembly on Monday, October twenty-sixth, and describe to 
them the significance of the celebration. As far as possible the 
reasons of the present commercial supremacy of the city should be 
explained to the pupils. It would be well also to impress upon 
them the importance of continuing that supremacy, by maintain¬ 
ing and improving the physical advantages of the City, by taking 
advantage of every educational opportunity to increase the effi¬ 
ciency of every citizen, and by cultivating a spirit of public serv¬ 
ice that will inspire all our citizens to render loyal service to the 
City and the country.” In Hovember 330,000 tickets to the 
Commercial Exhibits Avere distributed among the school children. 
These things, together with the participation of the children in 
the Local Festivals described in chapter VII, made the educational 
side of the celebration an important one. 

The Flag and Foster Committee, of which Mr. Louis Annin 
Ames was Chairman, is referred to in chapter IV. 

The Illuminations Committee, of which Hon. William Berri 
was first Chairman and later Air. Arthur Williams, with Mr. E. A. 
Horman as Vice-Chairman, is mentioned in chapter X. 




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The Law and Legislation Committee, of which Hon. Alton B. 
Parker was Chairman, performed valuable service in an advisory 
capacity. Mr. Henry L. Bogert was a helpful coadjutor in law 
matters. Owing to the fact that a Commission like this cannot 
expend State moneys for the employment of legal counsel unless 
especially authorized by the Legislature, matters of an important 
legal nature, such as suits, and claims through attorneys, were 
referred to the office of the Attorney-General of the State in Hew 
York City, at Ho. 299 Broadway. 

The Local Festival Committee, Hon William J. Lee, Chair¬ 
man, and Dr. Edward W. Stitt, Vice-Chairman, is mentioned 
more at length in chapter VII. 

The Medals and Badges Committee, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
Chairman, is referred to in chapter IV. 

The Memorials Committee had the valuable and energetic serv¬ 
ices of Dr. Franklin W. Hooper as Chairman up to the time of 
his death on August 1, 1914. The Trustees viewed with favor the 
erection of the Hational Watergate in Riverside Park which has 
been undertaken by the Robert Fulton Memorial Watergate Asso¬ 
ciation, but lack of available funds prevented any contribution to 
that object. The Commission also extended its official recognition, 
without involving any financial outlay, to three other memorials, 
namely, the tablet erected by the Lower Wall Street Business 
Men’s Association on May 23, 1914, on the site of the old Mer¬ 
chants’ Coffee House, on the southeastern corner of Wall and 
Water Streets; the ancient Oyster Pastv Battery cannon erected 
by the City History Club in Battery Park on October 31; and the 

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Hational American Indian Memorial which is projected by the 
Hational American Indian Memorial Association and for which 
President Taft broke ground in Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, 
on February 22, 1913. 

The Museum Exhibits Committee, of which Mr. J. P. Morgan 
was first Chairman and later Dr. George F. Kunz, is referred to 
in chapter XII. 

The Music Festivals Committee's work, under the Chairman¬ 
ship of Prof. Henry T. Fleck, is described in chapter IX. 

The Publicity Committee, of which Mr. A. F. MacKinnon was 
Chairman, did effective work in the extension of information 


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about the celebration through the press, in which held Mr. 
MacKinnon has had wide experience. The celebration was 
further advertised by means of banners stretched across the 
streets, and by the poster described in chapter IV. 

1 he Reception Committee, in the Chairmanship of which Mr. 
Samuel W. Fairchild succeeded Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, took 
hospitable care of the official guests of the Commission. The offi¬ 
cial representatives of the Cuban Government, mentioned in chap¬ 
ter XIV, were ciceroned chiefly by Mr. MacKinnon during their 
two weeks’ stay. 

The Religious Meetings Committee is referred to at length in 
chapter VIII. 

The Headquarters of the Commission were in the Tribune 
Building at Xo. 154 Nassau 'Street, New York. The two offices 
of the Secretary and his personal office equipment were placed 
gratuitously at the service of the Commission, and it was neces¬ 
sary to rent a third office only a part, of the time to accommodate 
stenographers. With the exception of eight months, the Secre¬ 
tary has given his services for a period of two and a quarter years 
without compensation, and voluntarily relinquished his salary on 
the outbreak of the European War. 

Official Cooperation was most generously accorded to this Com¬ 
mission by other official bodies. Without this cooperation it 
would have been impossible to carry out the celebration in the 
short time which this Commission had for preparation. The 
State Civil Service Commission excepted the employees of this 
Commission from examination under the provision of civil service 
rule VIII, subdivision 9. The State Printer, who by law is 
entitled to do all printing paid for out of State funds, waived his 
privilege with respect to emergency printing. The Comptroller’s 
office and the Attorney-General’s office were very helpful. The 
Board of Aldermen, pursuant to section 419 of the City charter, 
suspended the requirement for public letting of contracts for the 
expenditures of City funds; also section 41, chapter 2, part 2 of 
the Code of Ordinances in regard to advertising trucks vans and 
wagons in parades. The Aldermanic Committee, of which 
Aldermen Frank J. Dotzler, Jesse D. Moore, and John F 


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McCourt were members, were of material assistance in forwarding 
the City’s participation in the celebration. The Commission is 
also indebted to the officials of the Finance Department, Police 
Department, Park Department, Dock Department and Education 
Department for their indispensable help. 

The grateful acknowledgments of the Commission are due in 
many other directions for courtesies and accommodations, 
especially to Hon. Herman Ridder, for the use of his large library 
in the'Staats-Zeitung Building at No. 182 William Street for the 
meetings of the Commission; to the Automobile Club of America 
for the use of the assembly room of its club house in West 54th 
Street for committee meetings; to Mr. William C. Muschenheim 
for the hospitality of the Hotel Astor for the inaugural historical 
meeting on March 27; and to Mr. Frederick Sterry for courtesies 
extended To committees and guests at the Hotel Plaza. 




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III 

Finances 

i lie funds for the celebration were derived from the following: 

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sources: 


State appropriation . $100,000 00 

City appropriation . f0,000 00 

Subscriptions and miscellaneous. 8,677 01 


$118,677 01 

Assuming the disbursement of the entire City ap¬ 
propriation of $10,000 which did not pass 
through the Treasury of the Commission, the 


total expenditures to March 18, 1915, have been. 115,125 80 
Balance at date of this report. $3,551 21 


The general system of disbursement pursued was as follows*. 
All expenditures were required to be authorized by the Board of 
Trustees. Soon after the State appropriation became available, 
estimates of the needs of the different committees were made and 
certain amounts were apportioned to those committees. The indi¬ 
vidual apportionments were increased or reduced by the Trustees 
from time to time, but the aggregate was kept at about the same 
figure. These apportionments gave the committees an idea of the 
amount in excess of which they could not plan, but did not in 
themselves authorize expenditures. Estimates of desired expendi¬ 
tures were submitted to a committee on estimates for approval 
before they could be authorized. Bills, when rendered, were first 
approved by the Chairman of the Committee which incurred them 
and were forwarded to the chartered accountant at the head 
quarters of the Commission in the Tribune Building, No. 154 
Nassau Street, New York. They were then presented at the next 
meeting of the Trustees and approved for payment, subject to 
examination and approval by the Auditing Committee. After the 
approval of the voucher by the Auditing Committee, the checks 










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were countersigned by the President, Acting President, or Secre¬ 
tary, and were then signed by the Treasurer. 

From time to time, requisitions were made upon the State 
Treasurer through the Comptroller for remittances of portions of 
the State appropriation which were deposited with the Treasurer. 
Subsequently, the Commission transmitted to the Comptroller paid 
vouchers, in form approved by the Comptroller, accounting for the 
amounts disbursed. 

The City funds did not pass through the Treasury of the Com¬ 
mission, being paid direct by the Department of Finance to the 
payees. 

The subscription funds were raised from time to time to meet 
current needs not otherwise provided for and were never of any 
considerable amount at any one time. They were disbursed in the 
same manner as the 'State funds. 

The Commission is greatly indebted to Messrs J. P. Morgan & 
Co., Treasurer, and to Hon. X. Taylor Phillips, Hon. William R. 
Willcox and Hon. Arthur J. O'Keeffe, members of the Auditing 
Committee, for their valuable services in this department of the 
Commission’s work. 

The accounts of the Commission were kept by Mr. John J. 
Baird, a chartered accountant from the firm of Patterson, Teele & 
Dennis. Mr. Baird received the special acknowledgments of the 
Commission for his faithful and unremitting services which were 
often more than could have been strictly expected of him as an 
accountant. 

At the date of this report, all the financial affairs of the Com¬ 
mission have been settled except certain claims which the Commis¬ 
sion does not acknowledge. 

All expenses have been stopped except such as are necessary for 
the accountant and stenographer for time actually employed; 
printing, postage, telephone, messenger, etc., when necessary; and 
some small legal expenses. 


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IV 

Official Insignia 

The Commission had four official insignia, namely, the medal, 
the badge, the flag and the poster. 

The Official Medal 

The Official Medal, designed and executed by Tiffany & Co., is 
circular in form and three inches in diameter. The obverse of 
the Medal bears in its upper part, above a long cluster of native 
American fruits, the legend u The Commercial Tercentenary of 
Yew York, 1614-1914.” Below is depicted the first trading by 
the Dutch with the Indians. In the foreground are a Dutch 
trader and two Indian chiefs; in the background are other Indians, 
and Dutchmen with chests of goods; while in the distance is the 
Dutchman’s ship on the Hudson River. On the reverse are a 
representation of commercial Yew York City of to-day, five coat- 
of-arms, and the panel for the name of the owner of the Medal. 
The view of Yew York City shows the section of lower Manhattan 
from the Singer Building to the Woolworth Building, with the 
Hudson River in the foreground. Upon the river is seen the fore¬ 
part of a modern ocean-going steamship. At the top of the Medal 
are the arms of Yew Yetherland and at the bottom the arms of 
Yew York State. At the left of the name-panel are the arms of 
Yew Amsterdam; at the right, the arms of Yew York City under 
the English government; and beneath, the arms of the present 
City. 

The medals are made so that the recipient's name can be struck 
in a panel by means of an insert at the time the medal itself is 
struck. 

The medals are struck in gold, silver and bronze. The gold 
medals are reserved for official presentation. The other medals 
are sold to members of the Commission and to others desiring them. 
The price of the silver medal with name of recipient is $10.00; 
silver medal without name, $8.50 ; bronze medal with name, $5.00 ; 
and bronze medal without name, $3.50. 


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The first silver medal struck was presented by permission to the 
President of the United States, with the following letter: 


A t ew York, April 3, 1914. 


The Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 
Washington, D. C.: 


Sir. — The Yew York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
has the honor to present to you the accompanying* Silver Medal 
which is the first medal struck by this Commission to commemor¬ 
ate the 300th anniversary of the beginning of the regularly Chart¬ 
ered Commerce of what are now the City and State of Yew York. 

The events commemorated by this memento — the granting by 
the States General of the United Yetherlands on March 27, 1614, 
of the first general charter, and on October 11, 1614, the first ex¬ 
clusive charter, for trading to Yew Yetherland — were of more 
than local importance, for the commercial intercourse between the 
Old W orld and the chief port of the present United States, thus 
inaugurated, has since then been continually maintained and has 
developed, internally and externally, to proportions of national 
and international significance. 

It is a cause for national felicitation that with this commercial 


and industrial development has come a great development in other 
departments of our national life. At no period in the history of 
the world has the intimate reciprocal relation between commerce 
and industry on the one hand and intellectual activity, as repre¬ 
sented in the arts, sciences and letters, on the other, been so fully 
recognized as now. A strong and active national commerce and 
a vigorous and virile national industry stimulate art, science and 
literature, and these in turn react upon the commercial and in¬ 
dustrial life of the Yation, making it more fruitful and progress¬ 
ive. And it gives this Commission peculiar pleasure to present 
this medal to one who, like yourself, has contributed so much to 
the intellectual development of the American people and who, as 
President of the United States, sustains such a vital relation to 
their commercial and industrial progress. 

It is a happy coincidence and also a matter for national con¬ 
gratulation, that this year, which rounds out three centuries of our 
commercial progress, should be marked by the practical opening 
under your administration of the Panama Canal. The westward 
passage to Cathay which the early explorers sought in vain to find 
we have built, and the piercing of the continental barrier between 
the seas gives promise of still greater triumphs for our commerce 
in the centuries to come. 




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We trust that American commerce, which enters upon a new 
era under your administration., may not only redound to the great 
benefit of the people of the United States, but that it may also bind 
us more closely to all nations in the ties of mutual friendship. 

'We avail ourselves of the courtesy of the representative whom 
you have designated, Mr. Edward M. House, to transmit this 
medal to you by his hand. Be pleased to accept with it, Mr. 
President, the assurances of our high esteem. 

Very respectfully yours, 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

Presiden t. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, 

Secretary. 

The Official Badge 

The Official Badge is reserved exclusively for the members of 
the Commission. It consists of a reproduction of the Official 
Medal designs upon a medallion one and a half inches in diameter, 
depending from an orange, white and dark blue ribbon, the whole 
suspended by a bar bearing the word “ Commission ” or, in the 
case of an officer, his title. The badges with silver medallions and 
bar are sold for $3.00 and those with bronze medallion and bar 
for $2.00. 

The Officical Flag 

The Official Flag was designed by Mr. Louis Annin Ames. It 
consists of three equal vertical bars, Nassau blue, white and 
Nassau orange, the blue bar at the staff. In the center of the 
white bar, the coat-of-arms. 

Charge: Upon a shield argent a marine view; in base a Dutch 
merchant vessel under sail on a body of water all proper; sky 
argent and azure. 

Crest: On a wreath azure and argent a Dutch windmill proper. 

Supporters: On a quasi-compartment formed by the extension 
of the ribbon or scroll. Dexter: A Dutch merchantman proper; 
Dutch hat proper; vested vert; about the waist a belt gules; hose 
and shoes sable; buckles on shoes or; in the dexter hand a charter 
scroll argent; the sinister arm embowed, hand supporting shield at 
the dexter chief point. Sinister: A North American Indian 
proper; hair dressed and decorated with feathers; about the waist 


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skins proper; feet mocasined proper; in the sinister hand a pelt; 
the dexter arm embowed, hand supporting the shield at the sinister 
chief point. 

Motto: Below the shield on a scroll argent, azure and or 
“ 1614-1914.” 

The shades of Nassau blue and Nassau orange were used by the 
Netherlands in 1614 when the first charters for trading to New 
Netherland were granted. The vertical arrangement of colors 
was adopted, partly to give the flag individuality, and partly 
because the vertical arrangement of flag colors was first adopted 
by the City of Amsterdam in 1602 when the colors were red, black 
and red. The windmill of the crest is of the type used in the 
Netherlands and New Netherland. 

The design of the flag was copyrighted, but anybody who would 
conform to the official specifications was allowed to manufacture 
and sell it. 

The Official Poster 

The Official Poster was designed by Mr. Frederick S. Lamb. 
It depicts a classically robed woman, sitting in the stern of a boat, 
her right arm resting on the tiller and her left arm on a terrestrial 
globe. Under the tiller handle is the coat-of-arms of the City of 
New York. On the deck in the lower right hand corner of the 
design are bales of merchandise, the corresponding space in the left 
hand corner being occupied by a coil of rope. The background 
above the gunwale represents' the sea and sky, and upon the horizon 
appears a ship under sail. At the bottom of the design appear 
the following dates and words: 

o 

1614 New York 1914 


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V 

Ceremonies at Fort Wadsworth 

On Friday, March 27, 1914, the 300th anniversary of the grant¬ 
ing of the first general charter by the States General of the United 
Netherlands for trading to New Netherland, the period of the 
lercentenary Celebration was opened with two observances. The 
first. was held in the afternoon at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, 
and the second in the Hotel Astor, Manhattan. 

The ceremonies in Fort Wadsworth were held at the place 
where, on February 22, 1913, President Taft broke ground for 
the National Indian Memorial. They were under the joint 
auspices of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission; 
the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, Dr. 
George Frederick Kunz, President; the Staten Island Association 
of Arts and Sciences, Hon Howard P. Bayne, President; the City 
History Club of New York, Mrs. Emil L. Boas, President; the 
National American Indian Memorial Association, Mr. Rodman 
Wanamaker, President; a group of Dutch descendants headed by 
Dr. Tun is G. Bergen; and a group of Iroquois Indians from the 
Cattaraugus Reservation, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Kos¬ 
suth Dixon. The names of the Indians, who were in native garb, 
were Fillmore Jackson, Walter Kennedy, Benins Pierce, Theodore 
Jamieson, Orlando Doxtater, Frank Logan, Heeman Bennett, 
Frank Kennedy, Hiram Printup and Miss Anna Patterson. 

The exercises were held on the brow of the casement of Fort 
Wadsworth overlooking the Narrows and both the upper and lower 
bays. The weather was ideal, and the speakers used the wonder¬ 
ful view of the busy shore lines of Brooklyn and Manhattan to 
illustrate the growth of New York’s commerce since the event they 
were commemorating. 

A detachment of troops, under command of Lieutenant Phipps, 
formed three sides of a hollow square, in the center of which the 
ceremonies took place. The school children of Richmond had 
been especially invited to attend, and more than three hundred 


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of them were assembled on the opposite wall of the casemate, across 
the sunken drill ground. 

A pageant was enacted representing the beginning of trade 
between the Dutch and the Indians. The Hollanders were imper¬ 
sonated by Dr. Bergen, Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman, and Mr. Seward 
G. Spoor in costume. Opening an ancient chest, they bartered 
with the Indians, giving glass beads (from the American Museum 
of Natural History) and sundry goods in exchange for land, furs, 
etc. The pipe of peace was smoked, and addresses were made by 
Dr. Ivunz, ex-Senator Bayne, Dr. Bergen, Dr. Dixon, Mr. Hoff¬ 
man, Mr. Henry Russell Drowne, Secretary of the Sons of the 
Revolution in New York State, and Fillmore Jackson. Music 
was furnished by the army band. 

Mr. Drowne spoke as follows: 

Mr. 'Chairman, descendants of the Iroquois Indians and of the 
original Dutch Traders, as a member of the New York Com¬ 
mercial Tercentenary 'Commission and of the Sons of the Revolu¬ 
tion, I greet, you. 

Our country has passed through three great periods: First a 
century of discovery and settlement ; second a century of industry 
and independence; and third a century of development and ex¬ 
pansion, and now in the present era of commercial enterprise we 
are devoting a brief period to historical commemoration,. 

This is a fitting spot to start the beginning of a great celebra¬ 
tion. Here we can survey, on the one hand, the broad expanse of 
water over which came the ships of the first traders, and on the 
other we see the outlines of the great structures of New York 
City, the real evidence of what this beginning of commerce has 
created, the greatest city of the Western Continent. 

It is right that we, the descendants, should celebrate events of 
this character, and that the spots where these scenes took place 
should be appropriately marked. Thus when we are gone these 
monuments will remain and as time goes on they will become of 
much greater importance in the history of our country. 

Ten generations have passed away since our ancestors met here 
and to fittingly commemorate this event the Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission has caused a medal to be issued. I take pleasure m show¬ 
ing you one of the first impressions, which has been struck to-day. 
It portrays, in lasting metal, the scene we are here to celebrate. 

I thank you for your attention. 


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Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker 
expeditions among the American Indians, spoke as follows: 

Brother Indians, Brother Dutchmen, Fellow Englishmen, 
Americans all: On this great headland overlooking the waters of 
one of the busiest of world harbors, representative ’Seneca Indians 
met with long-haired, adventurous Dutchmen 300 years ago and 
transferred the deed of their God-given, primeval inheritance to 
the first settlers of Manhattan Island. 

On February 22d last, President William Howard Taft on this 

ty 

very spot broke ground for a memorial that shall rise in imperish¬ 
able bronze, a tribute to the North American Indian, the concep¬ 
tion of Mr. Rodman Wanamaker. 

Is it not, then, eminently fitting that to-day we re-enact the 
ceremonv of the first transfer of land from Indian to white man 
on the site where in the near to-morrow shall rise the magnificent 
memorial to the North American Indian with hand uplifted in 
the universal peace sign, giving welcome to the nations of the 
world as they sweep up this triumphant waterway — the Queen 
of World Harbors. 

Imagination falters as the eye sweeps to the horizon of the sea, 
follows the channel of incoming ships laden with the traffic of 
every clime and rests on the towers of Commerce that pierce the 
sky where the marts are made busy by the hum and bustle of over 
5,000,000 of people. The daring genius of Commerce has built 
its piles of granite down to the very edge of the water where this 
peninsula of power pushes its nose into the sea. Here rise the 
domes of galleries and museums, arches and memorials, factories 
with their belching funnels, houses of education, and cathedral 
spires. 

Now let the eye sweep backward over 300 years to the jagged 
and wooded hillslope, peopled by untutored Redmen. Hie scene 
before us this moment makes it difficult to conceive the simplicity 
of the one and the transcendent glory of the other. 

We have not been content to take the land the Indian once 
owned, or sail the waters that glide before us. But we sail through 
the air and do business under the waters that help to fill the sea. 
The marvel of it all, the majesty of it all, the world sweep of it all 
makes momentous the question whether we are willing to measure 
the aims of this Caucasian civilization and achievement with our 
treatment of the first Americansj whether the memorial to this 
race shall magnify this gateway of Commerce or stand a token of 
our pity or our perfidy. 

The *300 years since the transfer of this island have seen great 
strides toward a higher civilization. Yet we have not civilized 



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the Indian without brutalizing and debasing him. And to-day we 
hold him a slave on the barren plains and desolate deserts of the 
west. 

Thus there confronts us the problem of a great race of people. 
Too long it has been neglected. We have come to the point where 
we must face the issue. If the much vaunted spirit of American 
fair play means anything, let us apply it to the true Americans. 
Let us harken to the despairing call that reaches us from the barren 
stretches of the western plains. 

The Rev. Fillmore Jackson, an Iroquois Indian, spoke as 
follows: 

FA doubt many of you do not appreciate the historical value in 
the fact that along this moon three centuries, ago our forefathers 
assembled somewhere here and opened negotiations for the trans¬ 
fer of their immemorial rights to Manhattan Island, which never 
in the memory of mankind had been transferred from one party 
to another. The boundaries of the land sold were only to the high 
tide water mark, and strange as it may seem to you to note, the 
land between high and low water level, and all the land below 
water level never was sold, and still belongs to the Indians. 

Speaking on behalf of our people I want to thank you good 
people and the originator of the idea of the giant memorial to be 
erected to the honor of the North American Indian, which will 
face the harbor of the Western Hemisphere — a giant memorial 
to the first inhabitants of this country. We hope that it will not 
only be a memorial but a reminder of the good faith that has ex¬ 
isted between us for the last 300 years. 

In the course of time, and coming down to this period, when 
wonderful changes have developed the supremacy of commerce, 
the island has attained its present illustrious position. Its won¬ 
derful buildings and gigantic towers are fine evidences of progress. 
In the development of farms we feel that we are working out our 
part, dwelling in your midst and helping to build up the great 
change in the Empire State. 

To-day we are no longer governed by chiefs, but by a President 
and courts of justice, and our schools are supported by the State 
of New York. 

The Iroquois school we have to-day is a model of modern edu¬ 
cational development of institutions for the growing Indian chil¬ 
dren and they have a devoted leader in Mrs. Emily P. Lincoln. 
Thanks to all this great fortune we are to-day a people living in 
your midst and working together with the Caucasian race for the 
uplift of mankind. 



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VI 

Inaugural Ceremonies at Hotel Astor 

I lie formal inaugural ceremonies of the celebration were held 
on Iriday evening, March 27, 1914, in the Hotel Astor on the 
Island of Manhattan. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, President of 
the Commission, presided. 

The platform was decorated with palms, and on the front of 
the platform was a large official flag of the Commission, flanked 
on either side by a United States flag. Upon the platform sat the 
speakers, several of the Vice-Presidents of the Commission, and 
the Indians named in the preceding chapter. 

The music was under the direction of Prof. Henry T. Fleck, 
head of the Music Department of the Formal College of the City 
of Hew York. It included organ music by Mr. Arthur Bergh, a 
soprano solo by Miss Grace Hoffman, a piano solo by Mr. Albert 
von Doenhoff, and baritone solos by Mr. James Stanley. 

After an organ recital by Mr. Arthur Bergh, Monsignor M. J. 
Lavelle, Vicar General, representing His Eminence John Cardinal 
Farley, offered an ascription of praise and thanksgiving for the 
divine blessings of three centuries of growth and prosperity. 

The Second City of the World; ” Address by Mayor Mitchel 

of New York 

His Honor, John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of Hew York, 
received from Mr. Vanderbilt’s hand the second Official Medal 
(the first having been presented, as previously stated, to President 
Wilson), and then spoke extemporaneously. He said that it was 
fortunate that this 300th anniversary celebration fell within the 
year in which that great waterway constructed by the United 
States, the Panama Canal, was opened to practical use. It also 
was noteworthy that it came in the year in which the 1,000-ton 
Barge Canal was nearing completion. These three important 
events were surely worthy of the attention and worthy of the citi¬ 
zens of the City and State of Hew York. 


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The Mayor said that since the granting of the trade charter by 
the States General of the .Netherlands three hundred years ago ? 
this port had grown to be the leading seaport of the world, 
unequaled anywhere in natural facilities for trading vessels and 
the navies of the world. It had built up its commerce by its nat¬ 
ural advantages and the spirit of progress of its people. 

The greatness of the port, he continued, was due to natural 
advantages, but the government of the City had done little to add 
to them until very recently. During the last four years the City 
administration gave close and careful attention to port develop¬ 
ment and the present administration was giving a large share of 
its attention to this important subject. lie said that this celebra¬ 
tion should recall to the citizens of New York their opportunity 
to celebrate in a more lasting way by devising a correct plan of 
port development.whereby their terminal facilities might be greatly 
increased. The City administration was giving a large share of 
its attention to such a plan. The time would soon come when 
New York would have to provide for the Bronx, Queens and Rich¬ 
mond terminal facilities similar to those for Manhattan and 
Brooklyn. 

The municipal authorities, lie said, were trying to work cut a 
plan not for a few years but for all time, as far as men can look 
ahead. To this end the City administration would welcome the 
advice of citizen bodies. The people should remember that the 
port of New York had become the greatest through the advantages 
nature bestowed on it and that from this time on the ingenuity of 
man would have to do the rest. 

Summing up the desires of his administration, the Mayor said 
they hoped to erect a monument that would be a lasting reminder 
to the people of the commercial supremacy of the port. 


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The North American Indian; ” Address 


of Fillmore Jackson 


The Rev. Fillmore Jackson, an Iroquois Indian, spoke extem¬ 
poraneously. His remarks, condensed, were substantially as 
follows: 

In the first place I feel called upon to thank our Heavenly 
Father that I am permitted to stand before this great audience 


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to-day as a North American Indian, a descendant of a true native 
of North America. 

I rom history we learn of the transfer of Manhattan Island 
from the Indians to the Dutch 300 years ago and we are Mad to 
be here to-day to assist with the ceremony inaugurating the Ter¬ 
centenary of the Chartered Commerce of New York and to view 
the site where our forefathers three centuries ago literally gave to 
the white man this splendid plot of land where to-day stands the 
great City of New York with its greatest of harbors. 

A\ e cannot but experience moments of sadness when we stop 
and consider what this anniversary means to us. However, there 
is no remedy available, and may the Indian of to-day learn a les¬ 
son from this irreparable loss to their ancestors, who entered into 
this agreement through ignorance. The Indian of to-day, by 
reason of higher educational advantages and the influences of 
Christianity, is better able to cope with the white man. 

The Government of the United 'States and the State of New 
York have granted much money toward the support and education 
of New York State Indians for which we are most grateful and 
w r e feel it is through a Divine Providence with whom we all have 
to deal that this much is being done for our people. 

On behalf of the men with me to-day and the Seneca Nation of 
Indians, I want to thank you for the honor extended us on this 
occasion. 

The Indian of Today and Tomorrow; ” Address by Dr. 

Joseph K. Dixon 

Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker 
expeditions among the Indians, spoke as follows: 

The sands of 300 years have run through the hour glass since 
moccasined feet trod this island and the Indian dipped his paddle 
in the shimmering waters of the bay. The wigwam has been sup¬ 
planted by the Tower of Commerce. 

During most of that 300 years the Indian could not make a gun, 
a knife, or an ounce of powder and for much of the time, England, 
France and Spain have held territory on this continent. Con¬ 
stantly the aggressions of civilization have pushed backward the 
Indian until to-day his receding trail marks the sands of the west¬ 
ern ocean. 

Two mammoth conditions confront us. The supreme and 
unprecedented conquest of Commerce as exemplified in the trades, 
arts and sciences, buildings and engineering achievements set forth 
in this metropolis of the new world — a metropolis that marks the 
veritable triumph of the twentieth century. 



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The other condition had to do with the conquest and extermina¬ 
tion of a whole race of people, the original owners and inhabitants 
of American soil — set down in the books as one of the five great 
races of the world. A mighty race of people — a people who have 
produced warriors equal to the marshals of Napoleon, orators that 
would rival a Clay and a Webster; statesmen who would not be 
ashamed in the presence of a Chatham and a Pitt. Virile men — 
honest and true. And yet we have not conserved, but have 
destroyed these forces. No true speech on the American Indian 
can be less than an arraignment. William Lloyd Garrison said in 
his Faneuil Hall speech, “ I will be as harsh as truth and as uncom¬ 
promising as justice. 71 Justice is the cleanest, whitest word in 
our language, but there has been no justice for the Indian. Of 
the more than 800,000 Indians living in this country when the 
white man came, there are to-day less than 265,000, a decrease of 
more than 70 per cent. It is right that the plow, the spade and 
the schoolhouse should take the place of the wigwam, the war club 
and the tomahawk, but it is not right that civilization should be 
impressed by barbaric methods. 

The American mind could conceive a republic but not an Indian. 
America could conquer the old world, and rise redeemed and vic¬ 
torious when rent by the awful whirlwind of internal strife, but 
the history of the dealings of the nation with the red man whom 
she found here may be styled a history of dishonor. The white 
man dispossessed him, murdered him. The Indian then came to 
his own defense in a spirit of barbarism. 

In no instance save that of William Penn and his dealings with 
the Indian have we treated the red man as a brother and a friend. 
The nation flung a battle line more than 2,000 miles long and 
engaged at arms more than 2,000,000 men to procure liberty for 
the black man. Yet we restrict and enslave the Indian. Listen 
to the undying speech of liberty that blazed on the tongues of 
Madison, Mason and Patrick Henry: “All men are by nature 
equally free and have inherent rights — namely, the enjoyment of 
life and liberty with the means of acquiring and possessing prop¬ 
erty, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 77 

Upon the inviolability of this doctrine we pledge the honor of 
the nation. We vouchsafe it to the vicious hordes of Europe who 
emigrate to our shores; we extend it to the Filipinos and the Latin 
Americans, but we hold the remnant of a once mighty people as 
slaves on the inhospitable plains and sterile deserts of the west. 

As leader of the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship 
to the North American Indian, I have visited on their home ground 
every Indian tribe in the United States. I hold in my mind 
to-night a picture of sadness, sickness, starvation, desolation and 
death that spells the word tragedy in letters of blood. 






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We had made the descent of 2,600 feet within 40 linear rods 
into C a tar act ( anyon — traversed the bed of the canyon for 17 
miles with towering walls of granite rising 2,500 feet sheer on 
eithei side of ns the sun a molten ball of fire pouring down upon 
ns. W e reached the little reservation of the Havasupai, u Chil¬ 
dren of the Blue Water ” (named from the little blue stream that 
gurgles from the hillside) to find the temperature 110 at 8 o’clock 
in the evening upon our arrival. After sleeping on the ground 
with the heat radiating from the rock walls by which we were sur¬ 
rounded, we found a complete circle of 300 acres of ground 
encircled by sheer walls of rock. This Indian tribe numbers 161, 
many of whom have reached the ages of 103, 105 and 107, and had 
never seen an American flag. When 1 explained to them its mean¬ 
ing and its majesty, that it was their flag, they first touched it 
with hesitation and then three old men, tottering on their staffs, 
gathered up its folds and kissed it. More than two score of these 
people came to me pleading for help. They had tuberculosis in 
the ankles, the wrists and the neck, on some of whom the glands 
were so swollen that they had burst open and the pus was exuding 
down their bare shoulders—and not a doctor within 160 miles. 


This is but the alphabet of this tragedy. 

I could tell you of other Indians. Go south to the Jicarilla 
Apaches, a fine people, who are dying at the rate of 7 per cent 
above their birth rate, which in fourteen years will blot out, the 
tribe. ('hildren are perishing at their mothers’ breasts for lack 
of nourishment ; elders of the tribe are peeling bark from the trees 
and boiling it for soup. Not a day’s work to be had, no stock, and 
located on the Continental divide with a frost every month in the 

«y 

year prohibiting all agricultural pursuits. 

W T hat of the remedy? The Commission in charge of this cele¬ 
bration has struck a medal commemorating the glory of commercial 
achievement. Let there be another medal struck to-night by this 
Commission that shall not be a medal of bronze. But let the man 
who controls the supreme commercial and intellectual forces of this 
great City become the alchemists who shall forge out of the base 
metal of all dishonor, disgrace, greed, graft and merciless extinc¬ 
tion, a medal of shining gold, to be hung up before the nations of 
the world, that, they may read the fine lettering of the spirit 
inaugurated to-night: “ Dishonor erased — a race redeemed.” 

Another step: I would like to hang around the neck of Presi¬ 
dent Wilson a string of pearls — pearls of speech — speech that 
fell from his lips called “ The Mobile declaration.” He said: 
“ We stand for the greatest, ideal — human rights, constitutional 
liberty, and freedom for all. The American spirit must be the 
guardianship of true constitutional liberty. We are not only its 








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guardians; we are its champions. America was created to carry 
out such a program.” 

America has carried out no such program toward the North 
American Indian. We trample the Constitution and the Declara¬ 
tion of Independence under our feet every day of our lives. 
Opportunity never before has so sternly knocked at the doors of 
the White House, calling upon the President to verify his Mobile 
Declaration with reference to the Indian. This situation cons 
fronts the President — problems of foreign policy, problems of 
Mexico. But on the great stretches of the western plains the 
problem of a race of people, wards of the government, possessing 
large property interests, yet deprived in every single instance of 
any independent use of that property, deprived of any voice in the 
courts; deprived of the choice of a place to live in, denuded of the 
spirit of independence, groping their way about in blindness with 
eyesight seared by trachoma, huddled in unsanitary hovels, racking 
themselves to death with consumption — many of them literally 
starving. 

Mr. Wanamaker inaugurated his historical expeditions to the 
North American Indian for the purpose of making a permanent 
record of Indian life and story. These expeditions gave birth to 
the idea that all this virility of character and splendid heroism in 
the face of wrong should be recognized and perpetuated in a lasting 
memorial. And when Mr. Wanamaker launched the idea of erect¬ 
ing this National Indian Memorial in the harbor of New York — 
a memorial that would magnify the wonders of this greatest of 
world harbors — the press of New York called it the greatest 
single idea of the century. 

As full of majesty, as all-dominating as this idea strikes us, for 
we esteem it fitting that we thus honor ourselves by honoring the 
Indian, there will be a double honor and a double majesty if this 


Commission and the President of the United 'States will move to 
take the administration of Indian Affairs out of politics, place it 
upon an equitable, comprehensive, non-partisan basis; place the 
Indian where he will not be subject longer to the cumbersome, 
entangling and vicious methods prevailing since the earliest time 
of the reservation system. This all means an entire re-codification 
of Indian law, and should mean the entire obliteration of the 
present system of Indian administration. 

The Indian is now ready to meet the just approaches of the 
white man. Hitherto, stubborn walls of prejudice on account of 
long years of robbery and persecution have stood in the way 
between him and the white man. The Indian has seen the flag 
at government headquarters; he has seen it flying over the schools 
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flag; it belonged to the United States, and to him it represented 
a flag of oppression; a flag that represented the power of the agent 
over him as the policeman’s badge represents the iron hand of 
civic authority. He had never had the symbolism and wonder of 
the flag explained to him until the visit of the Expedition of Citi¬ 
zenship. After such an explanation had been given to the Uintah 
Indians and a flag presented as their very own for the first time 
in history, an old chief responded, “ What you say about the flag 
is good. Hitherto we have talked land; we have talked roads; we 
have talked schools; we have talked irrigation canals'. We have 
never thought flag and we have never talked flag.” Turning to the 
leader of the Expedition, he said, “ It was sunrise to our hearts 
when you came to us with the flag; it will be sunrise when you 
leave us with the flag. Our road now leads straight toward the 
new morning.” 

Queen Victoria was standing by one of her great poets review¬ 
ing the troops which had returned from the Crimean War — 
heroes of Inkerman, Balaklava and the trenches of Sebastapol. 
The queen remarked, “ How strange the voices of these men; they 
are unlike any voices that I have ever heard.” The poet replied, 
“ It is the cry of a nation.” 

Across the far stretches of the plains, moaning over the desolate 
wastes of the desert, climbing the high hills, we hear to-night the 
sob of a nation. What will you do with the cry ? 

“ The United Netherlands ; ” Address of lion. A. van de 

Sande Bahhuyzen 

The Hon. A. van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Consul of the Nether¬ 
lands at New York, spoke as follows: 

Mr. Mayor, Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: T ou 
are indeed doing me a great honor by asking me, as repre¬ 
sentative of the Netherlands, to associate with you on the occasion 
of the tercentenary celebration of the granting of the first, charter 
by the States General of the United Provinces for trading with 
New Netherland. 

What could be more welcome to me than to have the opportunity 
of congratulating you and rejoicing with you in the results which 
we see accomplished to-day and which were born three hundred 
years ago when the High and Mighty Lords of my country took a 
step the portent and enormous consequences of which they could 

not foresee. 

The history of your City in its infancy, Mr. Mayor, is so closely 
allied with Holland that it needs hardly be stated that we ILol- 





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landers take a particular interest in its development, welfare and 
future. The old connections are kept alive by many societies of 
New York citizens, and five years of* my life spent amongst these 
most hospitable of men have given me many proofs that the influ¬ 
ence of the nationality of the first inhabitants still makes itself felt, 
politically as well as socially. 

Now that I am allowed to speak to you for a few moments, I 
cannot, it seems to me, select a more appropriate subject than to 
tell you something about the condition of my country at the time 
when 'the first settlers came to these distant shores, and about the 
spirit which pervaded the people in those days of strife and strug¬ 
gle. For it is with that same spirit that the first traders and the 
first settlers were impregnated. It is that spirit which they in 
turn have instilled in their offspring, which guided their actions, 
and shaped the future of this City. The picture which AVashing- 
ton Irving drew so vividly of the old Knickerbockers is a source of 
merriment to all of us, but can hardly be considered a picture of 
the reality. 

Men in those days must have been of sterner stuff or they would 
not have been equal to cope with the hardships required of them. 

Candid friends tell me often that the fault of us Dutch is giving 
too little and asking too much. I hear this so often that I suppose 
that the real estate owners still fret at the idea that we considered 
the sum of GO guilders or 24 dollars a fair price for Manhattan 
Island. 

I know, however, that the trade between Holland and America 
has been growing so consistently and has assumed such great pro¬ 
portions that if you are right in imputing this stinginess to us, 
it must then needs be that the virtue of Americans is to ask too 
little and to give too much, for I do not see how otherwise there 
could be any basis for the extensive trade between our countries 
as it exists to-day. 

May I deviate from my subject and tell you the origin of the 
adage? When Canning was Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Eng¬ 
land ini 162G and was negotiating new treaties of commerce with 
France and Holland, he had decided that a general import duty of 
20$ would be his lowest offer. France had accepted but Holland 
still held out for less. He had already informed the Nether land 
representatives in London to this effect but formality required that 
he should also inform the English representatives at the court in 
the Hague, 'Sir Charles Bagot, Being in a playful mood and the 
message not being of any importance, lie wanted to play a joke on 
Sir Charles. He composed a despatch, put it into a cipher code to 
which he knew that. Sir Charles had not the key and marked the 
missive “ Secret and important ” to increase the mystification. 


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Great consternation in the British Legation at The Hague! (Sir 
Charles wrote to Canning saying that he was sorry to have to draw 
his attention to the carelessness in using another code in an import¬ 
ant despatch, that he hoped that his Majesty’s interests would not 
suffer on account of it, and, please, to send the cipher. After 
about ten days the key came, and an hour’s work brought the 
following verse to light: 


“ In matters of Commerce the fault of the Dutch 
Is giving too little and asking too much. 

The French are with equal advantage content 
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.” 


And then there was added: 

“ Chorus of British and French Customhouse officers: 

We clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent. 

I have no further commands from His Majesty for your Excellency to-day. 
I am with great truth and respect, Sir, 

Your Excellency’s most obedient and humble servant 

George Canning.” 


Sir 'Charles saw that he had been played with and enjoyed it, 
but it is said the Secretary of the Legation to his dying day could 
not see what Canning meant by putting an official communication 
in verse and that in any case the use of the word “ chorus ” was 
entirely without precedent and most unusual in an official 
despatch! 

A year which boys and girls in Holland are taught to remember 
well and to consider of great importance is memorable for our 
country as having seen the invention of the curing of herring. It 
may seem exaggerated to attach much value to the simple discovery 
of how to treat a herring so that it will keep, but nevertheless sub¬ 
sequent history proves what far-reaching consequences it had for 
us. Indeed from that moment dates our development as a sea¬ 
faring nation; we took to the sea and ever since the sea has been 
our greatest ally against our enemies, the source of our successes 
and the source of our wealth. 

From the sea were we to get the wealth which enabled us to-keep 
the world power of Spain in abeyance. The herring fisheries with 
all its accessories are the foundation of our growth into a mighty 
nation of traders. The herring had to be sold and carried to 
France, Portugal and Spain. From there the immense quantities 
of salt, necessary for the industry, had to be brought. 

Hot being rich in timber for the construction of our ships, 
rapidly increasing in number, it, had to be fetched from the Baltic. 

The Hollanders of those days (I speak now of the Sixteenth 
Century) were not slow in seeing their opportunity, for soon we 
see them as carriers of other and more valuable cargoes between 
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So important became the part played by the United Provinces 
in the world’s trade that the King of Spain, who was straining 
every nerve to subdue the rebellious Hollanders, had to wink his 
eye at the fact that the harbors of his kingdom were full of Dutch 
merchantmen. 

To trade was an absolute necessity for us. Even in those days 
it required immense sums of money to provide the sinews of war; 
and a strenuous war it was we had to carry on against overpower¬ 
ing odds. The magnificent sacrifices made by the Prince of 
Orange and the other members of his noble house could not suffice 
to keep the armies and the fleet. Had it not been for our superior¬ 
ity on the seas, and the profits it made us realize, our struggle 
would have been in vain as it was proved in the case of the south¬ 
ern provinces. The people, not as far-seeing as its leaders, strenu¬ 
ously objected against trade with the enemy, and all the greater 
appears the sagacity and shrewdness of those statesmen who under¬ 
stood that they could in any case not prevent the Spaniards from 
procuring what they needed and that, where we could not think of 
blockading the coasts of Spain and Portugal, it was the best policy 
to make a virtue of necessity and supply ourselves what Spain 
demanded, but also benefit instead of allowing others to do so. To 
stop trading with the south would have automatically killed our 
trade with the north also. 

At last, however, when the Prince of Orange had been mur¬ 
dered, when Antwerp was on the point of falling into the hands 
of the Spanish General, threatening to lay the wdiole country open 
to the victorious Spanish troops once more, Philip decided upon a 
measure which he thought would break the indomitable perse¬ 
verance of the rebels. 

He closed Spanish as well as Portuguese ports to our traders. 
Embargo was laid on all Dutch vessels in these ports and many a 
captain and sailor ended his life in captivity, in the prisons or 
on the galleys. The only other effect of his measure was to stir the 
Hollander to still greater exertion. “ If you do not allow us,” 
they said, “ to fetch the spices and other valuable supplies of the 
Far East from the Spanish markets, we will go to the sources 
themselves.” 

From that moment on Dutch enterprise started on wider fields 
to the detriment, soon the downfall, of the Spaniard and Portu¬ 
guese. Then, about 1590, begins the golden age for Holland. 

Our hearts beat fast when we read of the moral courage dis- 
played by our forefathers in the immortal and monumental work 
of your great Motley, a work never excelled, never equalled, by 
any of our own historians. 

Of course the richest prize in the field of commerce in those 


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days was the fairylike wonderland of India and the Malay 
Archipelago. 

Long enough had Spain and Portugal been reaping the golden 
harvests there. It was said of the Hollander then that for profit 
he would kk sail through hell at the risk of burning his sails.” -So 
we need not be astonished that they entered the lists. 

The establishment of direct trade with the Far East became 
then the leading policy of the government as well as of private 
enterprise. The road thither via the Cape was well known and 
held no secrets for the many Dutch sailors, who often had served 
on board the fleets of the foreigner, but to go there and trade under 
the Dutch flag was quite a different undertaking; besides the diffi¬ 
culty of establishing relations in those faraway lands, where our 
competitors had fortresses strong enough to prevent outsiders from 
landing, there was the fact that the Spaniard and Portuguese con¬ 
trolled the seas, which were infested with pirates, yes, who in the 
words of those days “ owned the route.” At that time every 
country had to provide for itself. No nation allowed another to 
share the benefits of a discovery, when it made one, without a fight. 

Holland then presented a remarkable picture to the world. 
When nowadays even the possibility of a war is feared this suffices 
to lay the economical life of a country lame for considerable time. 

Tremendous losses are suffered without a soldier having crossed 
the frontier or a gun being fired. And there we find a small strip 
of country with difficulty protected against the inroads of the sea 
by dikes and windmills, without great riches hidden in the soil, 
not only bearing the stress of a long, long fight against a powerful 
world empire, but at the same time developing a world trade which 
aroused the envy of England and laying the foundation for a tre¬ 
mendous colonial empire, growing rich during and notwithstanding 
the war. 

Even our foes have to admit it. A Spanish diplomat wonders 
when he sees how Holland has in its warehouses an abundance of 
merchandise which it, does not produce. It grew no grain but 
Europe had no richer grain market; it raised no flax but produced 
most of the linen ; it had no sheep but wove cloth; it had no hills 
but was the market for French and German wines; it had no 
forests but it constructed more ships than all the rest of Europe 
put together. 

'Sir Walter Raleigh, long the British Ambassador at The Hague, 
in a report to his Sovereign estimated the profits of our herring 
fisheries at more than a million sterling. Five hundred vessels 
carry on the trade with England. Over 3,000 sails leave yearly to 
the Baltic, 2,000 traffic southward, 500 vessels carry timber 
through all Europe. Amsterdam attracts the admiration of the 


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foreigner, when he sees 3,000 to 4,000 vessels riding at anchor in 
its roadstead. 

When these are the results of a rebellion does this need any 
other justification? 

Numerous are the voyages undertaken mostly by private citizens 
of Amsterdam and other cities to distant lands, the main object 
being to find a road to far Cathay, the Malay Archipelago, and 
India via a supposedly existing northern passage. 

Heroic are the deeds of a Barendtz, a Heemskerk, who gave 
their lives in the vain attempt to sail their tiny, ill-provisioned, 
ill-protected boats through the northern ice seas. 

The same object made Hendrik Hudson discover accidentally 
the beautiful river, which to-day is the heart of your commercial 
metropolis. The story of his adventures aroused the interests of 
the merchants and many a vessel is equipped and despatched from 
the Weepers Tower in Amsterdam, where relatives and friends 
came to wish godspeed, often to be a last farewell to the adventure- 
loving sons of the nation, born of the sea. 

It is all very well to say that the quest of gain prompted this 
enterprise, but whatever the motive, the spirit and grit of those 
hardy sailors arouse our admiration. 

Hudson was in the service of the well known East India Com¬ 
pany, whose Charter, granted in 1602, allowed only to trade east 
of the Cape of Good Hope, and therefore this company could not 
make use of the knowledge gained of these shores by their servant. 
However, in their private capacity, the directors tried to turn it to 
advantage. Furs were to be had there and could be bought for 
beads whereas in northern Russia, till then the main source of 
supply, gold had to be paid. 

An expedition sent in 1610 left a large profit and from then 
on several other venturesome captains were despatched by Amster¬ 
dam citizens. 

The success achieved made other cities urge the States General 
to force the East India Company to disclose the information which 
its directors jealously guarded for themselves. 

'Soon after the other cities joined in the trade expeditions to the 
Hudson River, amongst the leaders Christiaenssen and Block. 

In 1613 Christiaenssen went out in the Fortune, Block in the 
Tiger and landed on Manhattan. He first realized that it would 
be better to remain after the peltry season was over. A permanent 
settlement would, he thought, accustom the Indians to trade more 
regularly. 'Christiaenssen used his time to make further explora¬ 
tions and to make wider connections with the native tribes. Block, 
who had lost his ship through fire, constructed then the first vessel 
and called her the Onrust or the Restlessness. With this very 


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primitive boat lie navigated -through Hellgate, entered the Sound 
and circumnavigated Long Island. Block returned alone to Hol¬ 
land, where he arrived in October of 1614. 

In March of that year, exactly three hundred years ago to-day, 
the 'States General of the United Provinces had, in order to stimu¬ 
late the enterprising spirit of the citizens, issued a decree prom¬ 
ising to him who discovered new countries a monopoly of trade 
with such country for four voyages. It was no charter, only as 
yet the promise of one. 

On his arrival Block and several other captains who had visited 
Manhattan combined and appeared in the Assembly of the States 
General, claiming the prize. October the 11th the petition was 
granted and the first charter given. 

That the privilege was immediately made use of is well known; 
-also that a few years later the trade with New Netherland was 
established on a more ambitious scale when the West India Com¬ 
pany started on its career in 1621 and founded the first govern¬ 
ment of this country. 

To more capable speakers I leave it to tell you of the further 
development of New York’s trade. They may tell you how the 
first little huts near the water front gradually increased in num¬ 
bers, then in height, till we see to-day the most amazing mass of 
buildings, crammed with people, teeming with activity, -a true 
wonder of the world. 

Where on the one hand a fierce struggle was waged for religion, 
liberty and freedom of thought, freedom of the home, and against 
a tyranny which had become unbearable to the people to which 
independence was as necessary as the air is to breathe, and on the 
other hand the world in those days offered great opportunities for 
satisfying an unquenchable thirst for adventures, stirred up by the 
wonderful tales of new, unknown countries and peoples where the 
most striking examples of heroism were exhibited daily, where 
noble sacrifices of life and possessions made for ideals, stirred the 
mind of the lowest, we can understand how a Whole people could be 
lifted to higher levels of activity and enterprise. 

From such surroundings the first merchants of New Amsterdam 
came. 

But let me end. Allow me, as one who has admired New York 
and who dearly loves it, to wish it a great future, to wish it all 
bliss. When I sail up the river at night and the fairy land of bril¬ 
liantly lit towers and castles of commerce holds me in fascination 
as spellbound, I often marvel to what purpose out of the lowly 
huts of 1614 this colossal tower of Babel has grown. But when 
I see above those lights, in the skies, the twinkling stars which also 
shone upon the first solitary settlers and which spoke to them of the 


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great and mysterious Power which guided them as it guides us, 
I know we can only pray that that Power mav lead this City to 

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continued happiness and success. 

“ Fort Orange; ” Address by Mayor Stevens of Albany 

Hon. Joseph W. 'Stevens, Mayor of Albany, spoke as follows: 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: For one imbued 
with the spirit of the reawakened Albany of 1914, marching 
proudly forward in the front rank of American cities, it is some¬ 
what of a task to “ about face ” and take you back for three hun¬ 
dred years 'to the time of our City’s beginning: 

The task is made easier, however, by the fact that the pathway 
is definite and has been illuminated by the lights left by the his¬ 
torian and chronicler, for whose valuable services I want to express 
my gratitude. Without them the task assigned me would have 
been impossible of accomplishment. 

The story of Albany's earliest days provides the chapter in 
America’s history which connects the age of trade colonization and 
chartered commerce with the prior stirring period of discovery, 
exploration and heroic adventure. 

The story opens about 100 years before the beginning of the 
regularly chartered commerce of the City and State of Few York. 
I shall refer to it briefly because of its intimate, interesting and 
important relation to the subject of my paper. 

Less than half a century after Columbus’ discovery, the French, 
in exploring the Atlantic seaboard, seeking a western sea route 
to India, penetrated inland to the navigable limit of what is now 
known as the Forth or Hudson River. This river they named the 
Grande River. 

To the northern part of the continent extending along the 
Atlantic Ocean from Florida to the Gulf of St. Lawrence they gave 
the name Few France. 

Following the receipt of reports from their country’s explorers, 
who were under commission of Francis I, King of France, French 
capitalists, merchants and ship owners, sent a number of vessels 
to different parts of the coast to barter with the natives for the 
valuable furs of the beaver, otter, marten and other animals. 

Success apparently attended these ventures. The Indians were 
hospitable. 

In the beginning a sort of free trade was the practice. Those 
early Frenchmen soon found, however, that they needed protection. 
Consequently, to enlarge and protect their exclusive traffic, advan¬ 
tageously begun with the Indians of the different villages near 
the junction of the Mohawk and the Hudson, they undertook to 



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build, about the year 1540, a fortified trading-house or castle, on 
the long, low island lying in the little bay, on the west side of the 
Grande or Hudson River, near the site of the City of Albany, at 
the mouth of the Norm an skill Creek. This they named Castle 
Island. 

Before the building was completed, however, a freshet came 
which did so much damage that the French then and there 
abandoned the island and never again deemed it habitable. 

Many of the maps of Hew France made during this period repre¬ 
sent the Grande or Hudson River from Sandy Hook to its then 
navigable limits, a distance of about 175 miles from the ocean. 

The maps suggested the exploration of the river by Henry Hud¬ 
son in 1609 in the Half Moon under contract with the Dutch East 
India Company, also looking for a waterway to the East, many 
persons at that time believing that in Forth America a navigable 
passage could be found through which vessels could pass to the 
Indian Ocean and sail to the Spice Islands. 

When he failed to realize his expectations of finding -a navigable 
passage to India, Hudson returned to England and arriving at 
Dartmouth, sent the report of his voyage to the Dutch East India 
Company. 

Thus ended the period of discovery, to be followed by pursuit 
for wealth at the beginning of what Woodrow Wilson describes in 
his History of the American People as the “ Contentious seven¬ 
teenth century, * * * with its perplexed politics, its schis¬ 

matic creeds, its scheming rivalries in trade.” 

The money making managers gave little consideration to Hud¬ 
son’s description of the physical features and chief productions of 
the Grande River and zealously furthered the company’s commer¬ 
cial interests in other parts of the world. 

I wish to digress here for a moment to call your attention to 
some of Hudson’s interesting experience while anchored near what 
is now Albany. 

In an endeavor to get into the good graces of the natives he 
invited several Indian chiefs to partake of some wine and strong 
liquor in the cabin of the Half Moon. These were freely imbibed. 
In a short time the Indians were tipsy and one drunk. Arthur 
James Weise, the historian, writes: “A merry chief had his wife 
with him but she, with womanly propriety, demeaned herself so 
modestly that her behaviour was admiringly observed by Hudson 
and his officers.” 

On the following day. but not until afternoon, a delegation of 
Indians went to the Half Moon and presented Hudson with a 
quantity of tobacco and some wampum. After a speech by one of 
the Indians, a platter of venison was placed before the navigator, 


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who courteously ate some, which delighted the Indians who, there¬ 
upon, bowed reverently and withdrew. 

Upon the advice of some of the Dutch seamen who came over 
with Hudson, a number of capitalists were induced to lit out a ship 
wdiich, in 1610, sailed to the river and obtained a large quantity 
of furs which were sold in Holland at high prices. Subsequently 
several similar highly profitable ventures were made. 

From the Indian tribe of Mohawks, with whom they traded at 
the height of the river's navigation, the Dutchmen learned of the 
prior traffic in furs of the French, extending over a period of 
many years. They were also shown the ruins of the trading-house 
or castle on Castle Island and took measurements of the walls and 
outworks with a view to making the structure serviceable should 
they at at any time occupy the country. 

About this time the merchants interested in the trade with the 
natives in this part of America petitioned the Lords States General 
for the license and protection of the government of the United 
Netherlands. With their petition they presented maps and charts 
on one of which they designated the French ruins on Castle Island, 
Fort Nassau, in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the stadt- 
holder of the United Provinces. The fort was described in a 
memorandum as follows: “ Fort Nassau is 58 feet wide between 
the walls in the quadrangle; the moat is 18 feet wide. The house 
inside the fort is 36 feet long and 26 wide.'’ 

The Lords States General favorably considered the petition of 
the Dutch fur traders and granted them, on October 11, 1614, a 
special license to make four voyages to the country called by them 
“ Nieu Nederlandt,” within the period of three years to begin on 
the first day of January, 1615, or sooner. 

A copy of this special license or charter is to be found in the 
printed colonial records on file in the Albany County Clerk’s office, 
compiled by the late Wheeler B. Melius. 

I think you will be interested if I quote from the document. 
It recites the fact that certain rights had been granted the March 
preceding, which fact I presume accounts for this celebration 
beginning at this time. 

It says: 

“ The States-General of the United Netherlands to all to whom these 
present shall come, greeting: Whereas * * *, merchants in the city of 

Hoorn, owners of the ship the Fortune, iCaptain Cornel is Jacobsen Mev, 
master, have united into one company, and have shown to us by their peti¬ 
tions that after great expenses and damages by loss of ships and other perils 
during the present year, they, with the above named five ships, have discov¬ 
ered certain new lands situated in America, between New Fiance and Vir¬ 
ginia, being the sea coasts between 40 and 45 degrees of latitude, and now 
called New Nether land. 


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“And whereas, they further represented that We did, in the month of 
March, publish, for the promotion and augmentation of commerce, certain 
consent and grant, setting forth that whosoever should discover new havens, 
lands, places, or passages, should be permitted exclusively to visit and navi¬ 
gate the same for four voyages, without permitting any other person out of 
the United Netherlands to visit or frequent such newly discovered places until 
the said discoverers shall have performed the four voyages, within the space 
of time prescribed to them for that purpose, under the penalties therein ex¬ 
pressed, &c, and request that we should be pleased to accord to them due 
testimony of the aforesaid grant in the usually prescribed form; 

“ Wherefore, the premises having been considered, and We, in our Assem¬ 
bly, having communication of the pertinent report of the petitioners relative 
to the discoveries and finding of the said new countries between the above- 
named limits and degrees, and also of their adventurers', have consented and 
granted, and by these presents do consent and grant, to the said petitioners, 
now united into one company, that they shall be permitted exclusively to 
visit and navigate the above described lands, situate in America, between 
New France and Virginia, the sea coast of which lie between the 40th and 
45th degree of latitude, and which are now named New Netherland, as is to 
be seen on the figurative maps by them prepared; and to navigate, or cause 
to be navigated, the same for four voyages, within the period of three years, 
to commence from the first day of January, 1015, or sooner, without it being 
permitted, directly or indirectly, to anyone else to sail, to frequent, or navi¬ 
gate out of the United Netherlands, those newly discovered lands, havens; or 
places, within the space of three years, as above, on penalty of the confisca¬ 
tion of the vessel and cargo, besides a fine of 50,000 Netherlands ducats, for 
the benefit of said discoverers. Provided, however, that by these presents we 
do not intend to prejudice or diminish any of our former grants and con¬ 
cessions; and it is also our intention that if any disputes or differences 
should arise from these, our concessions, that they shall be decided by our¬ 
selves. We, therefore, expressly command all governors, justices, officers, 
magistrates and inhabitants, of the aforesaid United Netherlands, that they 
allow the said company peacefully and quietly to enjoy the whole benefit of 
this, our grant, and to interpose no difficulties or obstacles to the welfare of 
the same. Given at the Hague, under our seal, paraph, and the signature of 
our Secretary, on the 11th day of October, 1614.” 


The 'company sent Hendrick Christiaenssen, an experienced 
skipper of Amsterdam, in 1615, to Prince Maurice’s River, as the 
Grande or Hudson River was designated on the map of 1614, with 
orders to occupy Castle Island and to repair the damaged walls of 
the French castle. 

Accordingly the dilapidated parts of the structure were rebuilt 
and a garrison of a dozen Dutch soldiers was placed in it. Two 
small cannons and eleven stone swivel-guns, used on ships, were 
set within the earthworks. 

For three years the Dutch company traded with the natives or 
until 1618, when the exclusive privileges of the company ceased. 

In the spring of that year a great freshet again inundated Castle 
Island and injured the fort so much that it was abandoned by the 
Dutch, and never again occupied by them. 

Three years later, induced by the success which had attended 
the Dutch East India Company, a number of wealthy Holland 
merchants applied to the Lords States General “ for the exclusive 
privilege of sailing and trafficking within the territorial limits of 


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certain countries over which the government of the Netherlands 
had assumed jurisdiction.” 

On June 3, 1621, the charter incorporating the Dutch West 
India Company was given under the great seal of the Lords 'States 
General. The directors, however, were not prepared to prosecute 
the purposes of the incorporation to any marked degree until June 
21, 1623, when the rules and regulations of the company were 
formally approved by the Lords -States General. 

The West India Company’s plans of colonization - then went 
rapidly forward. 

In casting about, for a desirable body of emigrants who might 
be induced to become settlers in New Netherlands, the company’s 
agents came across a large number of French Protestants, then 
living in Holland, called Walloons, who had come from the South¬ 
ern Belgic provinces to escape the persecutions of the Spanish 
Inquisition. These people were well liked for their honesty and 
industry. By the departure of the Puritans from Holland, in 
1620, they had been led to seek the same privileges of emigrants 
to America and had petitioned the British ambassador at The 
Hague to obtain the necessary license from the English govern¬ 
ment. Their petition was dated February 5, 1622. It asked 
that 50 or 60 families, about 300 persons, residing in Amsterdam, 
might settle in Virginia. 

'The advantages which New Netherland offered to emigrants 
were earnestly presented to the Walloons by the Directors of the 
West India Company with the result that they became that com¬ 
pany’s colonists, setting sail from Amsterdam early in March, 
1624, in the ship the Nieu Nederlandt, cominanded by Cornelius 
Jaeobsen May of Hoorn. There were 30 families on board. 

When the Dutch ship had passed through the Narrows, Director 
May was surprised by a French vessel riding at anchor near the 
Dutch yacht, the Mackerel, which had sailed from Holland on 
June 16, 1623, arrived at the mouth of the river on December 
12th, and remained there during the winter of 1623-24. 

When the French commander was questioned concerning his 
presence he said that he had come to assert his country’s possession 
of this part of North America by right of discovery. 

In the arguments that ensued Director May maintained that the 
French officer’s assertions were only assumptions and, with the 
aid of the crew of the Mackerel, compelled the French officer to 
depart with his ship, from the bay. 

International peace restored, for the time being at least, May 
landed a number of his emigrants on “ Mannatans ” Island, the 
site of the City of New York, and then proceeded with his ship 
up the river to the country of the Mohawks and Mohicans. 


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I he Mohawks inhabited the west bank of the river near the con¬ 
fluence ot the Mohawk River, and the country westward bordering 
the latter stream. The Mohicans dwelt on the east bank of the 
river. 

In describing the disembarkation of the little band of Walloons 
with a few Dutch freemen on the west bank of the river, a short 
distance north of Castle Island, Weise says: 

“ In the warm sunlight of that serene May day of 1624, they 
began to explore with inquisitive eyes the green meadow where the 
hearth-stones of their new homes were to be laid. They drank 
with critical taste the water of the hill-side springs, and specu¬ 
latively wandered over the old, uncultivated corn fields of the 
savages. Looking across the slowly flowing river, they beheld the 
palisaded village of the Mohicans with its peculiarly built 
homes. * * * 

“ May, intrusted with the administration of the West India 
Company’s affairs in Hew Hetherland, soon summoned the colon¬ 
ists about him and assigned to them the quantities of land which 
they severally were able to cultivate. Then began the humble 
house building. 'Small spaces of ground were cleared, holes dug, 
posts planted and spars split. The latter were then bound hori¬ 
zontally to the uprights posts with withes, (a flexible slender 
twig or branch used as a band) and over this framework large 
pieces of peeled bark were securely fastened. Arches of bark 
formed the roof of the hut; clay, sod and stones the hearth and 
chimney. While the colonists were building their cabins, the men 
in the service of the West India Company were constructing, near 
the river, a small log fort. Having removed their families and 
household goods from the ship into their bark huts, the settlers with 
resolute hearts and active hands began to till the land assigned 
them.” 

The little fort of logs and earth was called Fort Orange, in honor 
of Maurice, the Prince of Orange, whose principality was on the 
east side of the river Rhone, in Southern France. 

The ship Mackerel, which had wintered in the bay, after taking 
on board a cargo of furs returned to Amsterdam where she arrived 
in August with Director May’s official communication and letters 
from the Colonists. 

In Hew York Colonial Manuscripts is to be found the deposi¬ 
tion of one of the colonists, Catelina Trico, with which I have taken 
some liberties as to spelling and expression but none as to facts. 
She related substantially: There were about 18 families aboard 
who settled themselves at Albany and made a small fort and as soon 
as they had built themselves some huts of bark, the River Indians, 
the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas with the 


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Ottawa Indians came and made covenants of friendship 'with Arien 
Jorise, their commander, bringing him great presents of beaver 
and other peltry and desired that they might come and have a con¬ 
stant free trade with them, which was concluded upon and the said 
nations came daily with great multitudes of beaver and traded 
them-with the Christians. 

It would appear from the foregoing deposition that the policy 
of free trade upon this continent is of savage origin. 

Director May’s ship, the Hicu Hederlandt, sailed from Fort 
Orange, when the harvest was far advanced, and took back to Hol¬ 
land many letters and messages confirming the gratifying reports 
previously taken back by the Mackerel. 

The Hieu Hederfandt’s cargo consisted of 1,500 beaver and 500 
otter skins and other things, which, when sold, returned to the 
West India Company more than 28,000' guilders, or about $11,200, 
a guilder being a Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents. 

Among the many letters from the settlers containing words of 
praise for their new found country was one in which the writer 
said: 

“ We were greatly surprised when we arrived in this country. 
Here we found beautiful rivers, bubbling streams flowing down 
into the valleys, pools of running water in the meadow, palatable 
fruits in the forests, strawberries, pigeon-berries, walnuts and wild 
grapes. Acorns for feeding hogs are plentiful in the woods as also 
is venison, and there are large fish in the rivers. The land is 
good for farming. Here is especially the liberty of coming and 
going without fear of the naked natives of the country. Had we 
cows, hogs and other animals fit for food (which we daily expect 
in the first ship), we would not wish to return to Holland, for 
whatever we desire in the paradise of Holland is found here. If 
you will come here with your family, you will not regret it.” 

“ This and similar letters,” says Baudartius, a Dutch scholar, 
writing in 1624, “ have roused and stimulated many to resolve to 
emigrate there with their families in the hope of being able to 
obtain a handsome livelihood, confidently believing that they will 
live there in luxury and ease, while here on the contrary they must 
earn their bread by the sweat of their brows.” 

Thus began prosperity in and about Fort Orange and in all 
of Hew Hetherland, under the auspices of the directors of the 
Dutch West India Company. Fort Orange was one of two 
colonies. The other was at the mouth of the Timmer Kill, a creek 
flowing into the Delaware, a short distance below Camden, Hew 
Jersey. 

The beaver made Fort Orange a famous fur emporium for 
several centuries. The animals’ habits and the Indians’ novel 


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way of trapping them and curing the peltry for traffic were closely 
observed and studied by the colonists. 

Ln 1625 May was succeeded as resident-director by William 
Verhulst, commissioned by the directors of the West India Com¬ 
pany. In the spring of that year, having registered the names 
of 45 emigrants upon its books, the company sent them with a con¬ 
signment of agricultural implements and a number of horses and 
other cattle to New Netherland. 

Success having attended its efforts so far, the company deter¬ 
mined to plant a colony on the island where we are to-night, the 
City ol New 1 ork, and in 1626 purchased the island from the 
Indians for sixty guilders or $24.00. Peter Minuit, the third 
resident-director, having arrived on the fourth of May, made the 
island the seat of government of New Netherland. 

But that is a part of the story which it is not my duty to tell 
this evening, save to say, in passing, that a number of the settlers 
at Fort Orange, disliking the isolated and remote situation of the 
colony at the height of the river’s navigation now removed to the 
lower settlement. 

In 1629 the Dutch West India Company abandoned the under¬ 
taking of sending settlers to the Hudson River, having found that 
it had been attended with considerable expense, which added noth¬ 
ing to its revenue. The directors agreed to favor another scheme, 
that of dividing the country into manors to be granted to proprie¬ 
tary lords, called patroons or patrons of New Netherland. 

Thus it came about that on November 19, 1629, the West India 
Company conferred upon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a wealthy 
director of the Amsterdam Chamber, who, for many years had 
been a dealer in diamonds and pearls in that city, authority to 
settle a colony on such land as he should select. He was among 
the first persons to make known to the company their intention to 
plant colonies in New Netherland. 

In the following April the Indians conveyed to Van Rensselaer 
a tract of land on the west side of the river extending from a point 
above Beeren Island to a point opposite 'Smack Island, in breadth 
“ two days’ journey inland.” 

Beeren Island is eleven miles south of Albany. Beeren is 
Dutch meaning bears. 

Smack Island is north of Beeren Island. 

In July of the following year Van Rensselaer obtained from 
the Indians another piece of land extending along the west side of 
the river from Fort Orange northward to a point between the third 
and fourth branches of the Mohawk south of Waterford. At the 
same time he purchased a tract on the east side of the river oppo¬ 
site'Castle Island. , 


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He continued to purchase until in April, 1637, he and his 
copartners were the patroons of a manor about 21 miles long and 
46 wide, containing more than 600,000 acres of land, at present 
included within the limits of the counties of Albany and 
Rensselaer. 

“ No people of the nations of Europe,” says Weise, “ were more 
acquisitive than those of Holland. To obtain soil for cultivation 
they took from the sea the low land of their once inundated country 
and inclosed it with massive barriers of sand and stone. With 
marts and manufactures they drew to - the ports of the United 
Provinces the merchantmen of Europe. 'Their monopolies vexed 
the neighboring nations. They sailed all seas in quest of wealth. 
They received usury from royal borrowers. To get property and 
to increase their possessions was the quickening thought that ani¬ 
mated the energies of the diligent inhabitants of Holland. This 
love of gain prompted the patroons of New Netherland to claim 
the right to trade for furs within the limits of their manors. 
Forthwith the West India Company filed a protest with the Lords 
States General calling the government’s attention to the fact that 
the charter of privileges and exemptions of 1629 expressly reserved 
the traffic in all kinds of peltry to the corporation. The special 
immunity of the West India Company being ignored by the 
patroons, the colonists in turn began to trade clandestinely w T ith 
the Indians and afterward openly. * * * In 1638 the agents 

of the patroons and the colonists were actively competing with one 
another in the lucrative fur trade.” 

In 1640, after several appeals had been made to the Lords States 
General to decide the matters in dispute between the West India 
Company and the patroons, a new charter of privileges and exemp¬ 
tions was obtained. 

This allowed all patroons, free colonists, and inhabitants of New 
Netherland the privilege of selling goods brought from Holland 
by the payment of a duty of ten per cent on their first cost to the 
West India Company. The inhabitants were permitted to trade 
for peltries, but an export duty of ten per cent in cash w T as required 
to be paid to the director and council of New Netherland upon all 
furs sent to Holland. Persons shipping commodities from New 
Netherland were first obliged to procure a permit and then to bind 
themselves to send them to the company’s stores in Holland. The 
prohibition on the manufacture of woolen, linen and cotton cloth 
in the new country was removed. Whoever should convey a colony 
of five adult persons to New Netherland was entitled to receive a 
tract of 200 acres of land, with the privilege of hunting and fish¬ 
ing in the public forests and streams. The jurisdiction of the 
patroons was not abridged. 





























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The liberty of trafficking for furs was soon abused by the set¬ 
tlers. k urs were obtained from the Mohawk Indians by the colon¬ 
ists of Rensselaerwyck in exchange for firearms and ammunition. 
Large profits were thus realized. The Indians after learning the 
use of firearms had some merry times. Wampum, the shell-money 
of the Indians, was counterfeited by avaricious Hollanders. 

The area of land surrounding the fort was subsequently desig¬ 
nated Dorpe Beverswyck, meaning beaver district village. 

This designation was made by the West India Company after 
one of many disputes with the authorities at Rensselaerwyck. 

On September 24, 1664, Fort Orange was quietly surrendered 
to the English. In honor of the lord-proprietor of the province, 
the name of the village of Beverswyck and that of the fort were 
changed to Albany. 

The year 1664, which gave us the name Albany, was an import¬ 
ant one viewed in the light of the future of North America and 
the history of Anglo-Saxon civilization. 

In that year men of English race, under their own flag, began 
to exert an influence on Manhattan Island. Ten years later they 
were in absolute possession of that territory. But that is a dif¬ 
ferent story, not assigned to me. 

Francis Whiting Halsey says, in his introduction to “ The Old 
New York Frontier,” that in the province of New York the first 
successful men were fur traders who exchanged Dutch goods for 
beaver skins. During more than half a century after Hudson’s 
arrival these Dutchmen did scarcely anything more. Villages 
grew up not only at Fort Orange and on Manhattan Island but the 
trader’s boat penetrated down the headwaters of the Susquehanna. 
Wherever villages were founded they were not so much permanent 
settlements as trading posts. Theodore Roosevelt has justly 
observed that while the Dutch aspired to secure large wealth for 
the mother country, they were devoid of ambition to found on these 
shores a free Dutch nation. 

As traders, Halsey says, the Dutch never promised to open a 
way to great national wealth. For the eleven years between 1624 
and 1635 the beaver skins received in Holland numbered only 
80,182, and the otter and other skins 9,447, or about 8,000 skins 
of all kinds per year. 

Albany was the fur depot for the whole interior. Father 
Jogues, whom Parkman pronounces as “ one of the purest exam¬ 
ples of Roman Catholic virtue which the western world has seen,” 
described Albany in 1644 as “ a miserable little fort called Fort 
Orange, built of logs with four or five pieces of Breteuil cannon 
and as many swivels, with some twenty-five or thirty houses built 
of boards with thatched roofs.” Except in the chimneys “ no 
mason’s work had been used.” 


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If I am not overstepping the period allotted to my paper, I 
might add that, according to Halsey, scarcely more enterprise 
marked the first years of English rule. As late as 1695 the trade 
amounted to only 10,000 pounds while in 1678 Governor Andros 
reported that a merchant worth $2,500 or $5,000 was u accounted 
a good, substantial merchant,” and a planter “ worth half that in 
movables,” was a prosperous citizen. The value of all estates in 
the province was only $750,000. 

Truly the great Empire State has sprung from small beginnings. 

I referred in my introduction to the reawakened Albany of 1914. 

Before I close may I call your attention to just a few of the 
things we are doing. 

We are improving the river front which for years has been an 
eyesore and a source of reproach. The work calls for new dock 
walls to be built by the City and the railroads and the steamboat 
companies, an intercepting sewer the whole length of the river 
front and a sewage disposal plant. 

AVe are repaving our streets. 

AVe are improving and enlarging our park area. 

All governmental agencies, including physical properties, such 
as public buildings, are being brought to a high state of efficiency. 

We have 709 factories with 13,182 employees. 

We have buildings to the number of 27,000. 

AVe have buildings planned for this year to the value of 
$9,051,753. 

Our bank clearings for 1913 were $338,103,207.39. 

Our post office receipts for 1913 were $609,687.66. 

The grand total of real, special franchise, personal and exempt 
property valuations for this year is $156,270,952.70. 

A\ r e are proud of our City’s small and interesting beginning and 
its present attainments. 

I thank you sincerely for your attention and trust that I have 
not taken up any more than the time allotted me. 


<c 


The First Families; ” 


Address by Dr. Tunis G. Bergen 


Tunis G. Bergen, LL. D., ex-President of the Holland Society 
and descendant of the first white child born in New Netherland, 
made brief extemporaneous remarks. He made a strong plea for 
the more careful study of the history of the Dutch period of the 
City and State of New York, and a better acquaintance with the 
Dutch language. lie cited instances of mistranslation of Holland 
documents which gave erroneous impressions of the facts and said 
that a truer conception of the character, language and customs of 


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the Netherlands people of the seventeenth century was indispen¬ 
sable to an adequate idea of the debt which the American people 
owed to the Dutch fatherland. 

lhe New Route to CathayAddress by Hon. Theodore 

P. Shouts 

The Hon. Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the original 
Panama Canal Commission, delivered the following address: 

Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been requested to address you 
briefly upon the great project with which it was my personal 
fortune to be associated — the Panama Canal. It is a compliment 
which I appreciate. But it is a source of even greater satisfaction 
to me as a citizen of New York that this theme should be brought 
to the front upon an occasion so unique as the present. Thus is 
indicated the deep interest and just appreciation felt by the people 
of this State in this great world enterprise and its possibilities. A 
timely interest in the Panama Canal is not only the right; it may 
be said to be the duty, of American citizens, who are the real stock¬ 
holders in the enterprise. 

There is indeed a certain historical connection between New 
York and the development of interoceanic communication, which is 
not without interest. 

The project of a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama has 
stimulated the curiosity of men from the time when Balboa, after 
breasting immense difficulties, first surveyed the waters of the 
Pacific. But it is to that bold and picturesque character, the first 
and in some respects the foremost of Western pioneers, who opened 
this State to European exploration, 'Samuel de Champlain, that we 
are indebted for one of the first concrete expressions of the thought 
of an inter-oceanic canal. 

The enterprise has always fired the imagination of great minds. 
Charles the Fifth of Spain surveyed its possibilities. It engaged 
the interest of Bolivar, Humboldt and Guizot. Henry Clay and 
Andrew Jackson were impressed with its advantages from the 
American point of view. Indeed I may say that the problem has 
been wrestled with by all men who have had at heart the develop¬ 
ment of the Western Hemisphere and the progress of western 
civilization. But to the bold and enterprising merchants of New 
York the world owes the first actual consummation of the scheme 
of inter-oceanic communication. 

The first, concession for an inter-oceanic canal, it may be noted, 
was obtained in the year 1826 , from the Republic of Central 
America, by Aaron H. Palmer, a citizen of New York. 



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At a later period a convention was entered into with the Repub¬ 
lic of Nicaragua by a New York company of which 'Cornelius 
Vanderbilt, a citizen of New York and the distinguished ancestor 
of the President of this Commission, was the leading spirit, for the 
exclusive right for a period of eighty-five years to construct a ship 
canal by any route from any point on the Atlantic coast to any 
point on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. 

These projects failed of completion; but in 1848 William H. 
Aspinwall, John L. Stephens and Henry Chauncey, all citizens of 
New York, secured a concession from the Government of New 
Granada for the construction of a railway across the Isthmus; and 
in 1849, at their instance, a charter was granted by the Legislature 
of New York to the Panama Railroad Company, a New York 
Company, which, amidst difficulties immeasurable in five years 
succeeded in establishing the first artificial communication between 
the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. 

Now that the efforts of American enterprise are about to be 
realized in the actual opening of an inter-oceanic canal, to quote 
the language of Congress, “ of sufficient capacity and depth to 
afford convenient passage for vessels of the largest tonnage and 
greatest draft now in use, and such as may be reasonably antici¬ 
pated,”—-the question naturally arises, how New York which has 
played such an interesting historical part in the development of 
the Isthmus route, is to utilize to its own best advantage the possi¬ 
bilities of this great commercial waterway? New York is the 
imperial port of the Western Hemisphere. Through the gateway 
of her harbor passes one-third of all the exports of American 
products to foreign lands, and one-half of all imports into the 
United States. But New York has no monopoly of foreign com¬ 
merce. The competition she meets with becomes more intense 
day by day; and with the improvement of their harbor facilities, 
other ports, both to the north and to the south, have assumed to 
contest her supremacy. Indeed, I regret to say that perhaps the 
greatest American products, the cotton of the south and the grain 
of the west, now principally move to foreign lands through other 
gateways than New York. The opportunities for competition will 
be further enhanced by the opening of the Panama Canal. The 
ports of the gulf will be from six to eight hundred miles nearer 
the Canal than New York, and I am advised that certain of them 
are taking active steps to embrace the new opportunity to expend 
their commerce created by the opening of the new route. 

But if the field of competition is thus enlarged, the field of 
action is likewise broadened. Vast portions of the commerce of 
the world hitherto remote are brought within easy access to the 
port of New York; and the citizens of this State must rise to their 
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It must be remembered that the Canal is to be opened on equal 
terms to the Hags of all nations. Here again the commerce of New 
\ ork must struggle with a disadvantage, to be overcome, if at all, 
only by thoughtful consideration of fundamental measures. It is 
an unfortunate fact, but it is nevertheless true, that American 
ships cannot compete upon equal terms with the commercial marine 
of other nations. Interesting figures which I have collected show 
that the cost of an American-built ship exceeds that of a similar 
ship constructed abroad by fifty per centum; and while this dis¬ 
advantage has to some extent been met by the recent action of 
Congress admitting foreign-built vessels owned by American capi¬ 
tal to American register, the further fact remains that the cost of 
operating American ships exceeds the cost of operating foreign 
ships of similar tonnage by approximately eighty-five per centum. 
It is no doubt a reproach to our national policy that no more active 
steps should be taken than have been taken in the past to deal with 
this well-known economic inequality, and to support by substantial 
aid American merchants in their efforts to restore the American 
flag to the seas. Here is a point upon which concerted action is 
required. The citizens of New York should be foremost in an 
educational campaign, designed, in the first instance, to secure 
national aid to American ship builders and American merchants 
in their efforts to compete with foreign vessels upon terms of 
equality; and in the second place to discountenance the enactment 
of navigation laws of the character of that recently pressed before 
Congress, where under the guise of aiding American seamen and 
promoting the safety of life upon the seas, restrictions were sought 
to be imposed upon American shipowners so burdensome, if made 
effective, as to have driven out of existence even those American 
vessels engaged in the protected coastwise trade. An open door 
and an even chance is all we ask; more American pride w r ould not 
accept. 

For a long time it has been an obvious fact that trade with 'South 
America has been slipping away and passing into the hands of 
foreign competitors — chiefly the Germans. My investigation 
persuades me that we have not shown the proper degree of commer¬ 
cial acumen in dealing with this question. We do not “ cater ” to 
the trade. The American manufacturer says to the South Ameri¬ 
can buyer: “ That is what I am making; if you like it, take it.” 
The German manufacturer says upon the contrary: “ What is it 
you want? I will make it for you.” And at the same time 
foreign countries promote their trade by establishing banks and 
extensive lines of credit, without which a trade preponderance 
cannot be maintained. Astute study of the racial peculiarities 
and actual wants of our South and Central American neighbors is 



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required; and the bankers of this City should be liberal and at the 
same time enterprising in developing lines of credit and organizing 
machinery to make it effective throughout the Southern lield. For 
in every age and every clime finance, it must be remembered, is 
the handmaiden of commerce. 

No-port can successfully maintain its commercial pre-eminence 
unless its terminal facilities are adequate for every development 
of trade and economical in the burdens imposed upon traffic. It 
has long been manifest that the terminal facilities in New York 
are neither adequate to the necessities of commerce, nor cheap with 
respect to the burdens they impose. Traffic is exchanged between 
the railroads and water carriers at this port by methods which, to 
say the least, are crude and antiquated. Lighters in the harbor 
and vehicular traffic on the streets of New York are the principal 
agents. 

It has been estimated that the terminal cost of handling a ton 
of all rail or water and rail freight at the port of New York is 
equal to that of moving the same ton three hundred miles on any 
of our trunk line railways. And yet in no port are the opportu¬ 
nities for either lightening or eliminating the burden of trans- 
shipment as great as in New York. One is surprised on looking 
at a map of the port, to note how easily and at what a relatively 
small expense the existing railroad terminals may be connected up. 
Short stretches of rail might unite the terminal lines in New 
Jersey with great clearance yards which could be easily established 
in the Hackensack meadows. Another short stretch might con¬ 
nect them with Bayonne, the natural location for a great import 
and export depot, equal to all future expansions of commerce, to 
be easily and cheaply established at that point. A system of tun¬ 
nels under the Hudson and East River, connecting with freight 
subways up and down the east and west margins of Manhattan, 
could be readily constructed, these tunnels upon the other side of 
the East River to connect with a series of belt lines to be extended 
indefinitely through Brooklyn and Queens, where an unlimited 
field is to be found for the development of the 'City’s manufactur¬ 
ing industries. The construction of a terminal system such as I 
have briefly outlined and into the details of which I have not time 
to enter here, would be easy in its engineering aspect, and com¬ 
paratively cheap with respect to the enormous amount of traffic 
thus to be handled, and from a financial point of view it is feasible, 
if the City of New York would only enlist the credit of the 
great trunk lines and shipping interests by such hearty co-opera¬ 
tion as would be nothing more than fair treatment. 

I can only touch the surface of this complex, and to the people 
of New York tremendously interesting problem. And yet I do 


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not question its ultimate and wholly satisfactory solution. That 
innate instinct for commerce, which has led to the brilliant accom¬ 
plishments of the century, and which has lifted this City from its 
position of a hamlet by the sea to that of the world’s premier 
entrepot, will successfully cope with this fresh opportunity. 
Indeed, the evidence is multiplying that New York is becoming 
aroused to the requirements of the situation. The officials of our 
City are devoting almost continuous attention to the question of 
enlarged terminals with cheaper facilities. In various quarters 
methods for securing more comprehensive and intimate trade rela¬ 
tions with Central and South American states are under discus¬ 
sion ; and the bankers no doubt have in mind their opportunity 
under the new currency law to create branches in those quarters 
where our commercial relations will justify the experiment. 

The introduction into the new field of practical trade methods, 
the active co-operation of our highly developed and resourceful 
banking interests, the quickening of the national conscience to the 
necessities of our merchant marine, and the adequate equipment 
of our harbor for the cheap and expeditious handling of a world¬ 
wide traffic, will bring to this City from the opening of the Panama 
Canal fresh commercial laurels. We ought not to question, when 
the motto of the Isthmian Commission “ The land divided, the 
waters united ” is realized, whether that event may have a greater 
significance for other nations than our own. We must people the 
house of our own construction. An unending succession of stately 
merchantmen flying the American flag,— in the largest part no 
doubt built by the wealth and directed by the intelligence of this 
communty — must and will prove that this great work is first of 
all an American Canal, built by American brains and American 
energy, paid for by American money, and operated for American 
commerce. 

“ Commerce and Education: ” Address by Chancellor Elmer 

Ellsworth Brown 

Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Ph.T)., LL.D., Chancellor of New 
York University, spoke upon the subject of the relations between 
commerce and education. He said: 

Ladies and Gentlemen: The relation between commerce and 
education has changed within the past three hundred years. 
These two have always had some connection the one with the other. 
•That connection, however, down to a comparatively recent time, 
has been chiefly in this form, that some of the gains of commerce 
have been employed by public-spirited merchants in the endow- 



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nient of educational institutions. Who shall say that this con¬ 
nection is not one of importance? Who, indeed, would even 
suggest that it he discontinued? The hopes of many of our insti¬ 
tutions of learning would fall to the ground if the fostering hand 
of commerce were withdrawn. Far be it from me to contribute 
in the slightest degree to such a catastrophe. It is fitting, instead, 
that expression be given to the incalculable indebtedness of educa¬ 
tion to commercial enterprise in all periods of the world's history. 
The debt has been enormously increased in recent years. And 
the gratitude of schools and colleges is not lacking in the tradi¬ 
tional expectation of favors yet to come. 

But the significant fact, which has already been mentioned, is 
that educational institutions for many centuries failed to make 
direct return to commerce for the aid which commerce had so 
liberally extended to them. When organized commercial enter¬ 
prise first found its footing on this island, the education of schools 
and universities was almost wholly uncommercial, if not even 
anti-commercial. The leaders of Dutch and English commerce 
in the seventeenth century were not men devoid of training for 
their special occupation, but their training had been gained apart 
from the recognized schools of the time. It was a training on the 
side, private, irregular, and hardly looked upon as education at all. 

Latin still held undivided sway in the schools at the beginning 
of the seventeenth century, and the Latin tradition, as Edward 
Eggleston remarked, still had some centuries of tough life in it. 
In fact these school-trained young men of that time, when they 
undertook the ways of business, were more skilled in Latin than in 
either written English or arithmetic. That was a long time ago! 
The merchants’ books of accounts that have been preserved from 
those times are not infrequently plastered over with Latin words 
and phrases. 

But the science of accounting was already making some head¬ 
way; and its progress was exemplified and accelerated, in charac¬ 
teristic fashion, by the publication in England, in the year 1635 , 
of a famous book by Richard DafTorne. It was entitled “ The 
Merchants Mirrour, or directions for the perfect ordering and 
keeping of his accounts; framed by way of Debtor and Creditor, 
after the (so termed) Italian manner?” The great teachers of 
the methods of commerce in those days w 7 ere successful merchants 
and ship owners who gave no end of time and expense to pointing 
out to younger men the way of success. This is a fact of the 
greatest importance, though commonly overlooked in our histories 
of education. It has been largely the method by which education 
in the fine arts, in the work of women, and in statecraft as well as 
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beginning of history. The debt of our race to its great teachers 
includes an incalculable debt to those who have taken the trouble 
to guide others while making their own way through the world. 
Among the frescoes that might suitably be placed upon the walls 
of a great institution of learning would be some such as these: 
Penelope among her maidens; Raphael at work under the guidance 
of Perugino; Bismarck initiating the young Prince William into 
the foreign policy of the new German Empire. In no branch of 
human activity has this form of teaching been more in evidence 
than in our commercial and industrial life. When “ John John¬ 
ston, Merchant,'’ came to Yew York in the second quarter of the 
nineteenth century, he learned the practice of trade, as many 
others had done before him and many are learning at the present 
time, by working under the guidance of a successful merchant. 

But within the past generation a new connection between com¬ 
merce and education has appeared. We have come to have schools 
and colleges which deal directly with preparation for commercial 
life. There are many reasons why this new type of education has 
arisen. The peoples of this modern world have come to have great 
faith in the methods of school education. With all their faults, 
we believe that an educational institution can generally educate 
more effectively and economically than an institution which is not 
educational. That very simple proposition carries large conse¬ 
quences. We find our modern schools and universities now 
extending methods and appliances into all sorts of fields where it 
had not been thought that they belonged. And we cannot doubt 
that this movement will go a great deal further than it has now 
gone. 

""There are two of the newer methods of schools which have lent 
great force to this movement. One is the laboratory method. 
Almost unknown fifty years ago, it made its way into colleges and 
high schools in the seventies and eighties of the last century, then 
spread from the physical sciences to other subjects of the school 
curriculum, until now we look for some equivalent of the scientific 
laboratory in most of the subjects of our curriculum. 

The second of these methods is that of combination of scholastic 
instruction with practical apprenticeship. This is mainly a devel¬ 
opment of the twentieth century. The University of Cincinnati 
has led the way with its six-year college course in engineering, 
one-half or more of the students’ time being spent at the bench in 
ordinary commercial shops. 

These methods are spreading into the field of commercial educa¬ 
tion. Already our university schools of commerce are feeling 
their way toward some practical dovetailing of their regular 
courses of instruction with their apprenticeship work of their 
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In this we are moving towards a new recognition and utilization 
of the teaching power of practical men of affairs. I firmly believe 
the educational systems of the future will incorporate in their 
general scheme the teaching of young men and women, in banks 
and stores and counting rooms and offices generally, by men of 
business who have the ancient and everlasting ability to teach and 
the ancient and everlasting interest in teaching. 

But our subject carries it farther than this. A new view of the 
responsibilities of higher education has appeared with the develop¬ 
ment of modern science. It is a view that any subject that has 
ideas in it can be studied scientifically. Since science has become 
free, no limit can be set to its extension. The universities, which 
aim to cultivate all of the sciences, find themselves inevitable 
partners in every large human activity. In the nature of things, 
they cannot be debarred from studying into every great human 
interest and saying their say about it. The assumption is that 
science can make clearer every problem of practical life, can pre¬ 
pare the way for more efficient procedure in every business of 
practical life. This assumption it would be hard to controvert. 
It can indeed hardly be doubted that the scientific study of busi¬ 
ness and the scientific preparation for a business career are to 
have in the near future a development far beyond even that to 
which the present popularity of our higher schools of commerce 
would seem to point. 

And the chief gain of such a development will necessarily be a 
moral gain. As human occupations become more scientific they 
acquire more of intellectual interest for their own sake, apart 
from or in addition to the financial profits which they may repre¬ 
sent. They become more unselfish; they place larger emphasis 
upon truth and honesty. I do not believe that our commercial 
life has been conspicuously in need of such improvement, as com¬ 
pared with other occupations, but the need is present everywhere 
and all the time. When Dr. James was sent some twenty years 
ago by the American Bankers’ Association to study the system of 
commercial education in Europe the most striking observation that 
he made was that commercial education not only prepares men of 
business but helps in the improvement of the business itself. 

Two highly significant addresses have been made recently in 
this City which have some bearing upon the subjects in hand. 
First of these was delivered at a dinner of the School of Accounts 
and Finances of the Few York University by the Consul General 
of Japan. The speaker traced the growth of commercial honestv 
and honor in his own country, and showed how it was bound up 
with the influence of western methods, with improvements of the 
social standing of the Japanese merchant, and with the advance of 


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ideas in the business itself. The second of these addresses, deliv¬ 
ered only this afternoon by Sir Hugh Bell of England before half 
a hundred or more of the leading business men of this City, gave 
utterance in peculiarly felicitous phrase, to the growing conviction 
of the commercial world that the prosperity of one individual or 
nation counts towards the prosperity of all. 

From an educational point of view it seems highly significant 
that the advance of trained intelligence in the field of commerce 
leads to a deeper grounding of those convictions on which a higher 
national life and a higher international life depend. It is the 
ultimate service of schools and universities to further the higher 
life. 'Shall not this celebration of our three centuries bring our 
commercial institutions and our institutions of learning into more 
vital co-operation in this mighty undertaking ? Our schools and 
universities are to repay these centuries of patronage by the 
masters of trade, with more direct contribution to commercial bet¬ 
terment. Insofar as they shall prove their ability to render new 
and indispensable service, they will hope to have their facilities 
for such service strengthened and enlarged. The methods of the 
universities will permeate our business houses so far as the train¬ 
ing of their rising young men is concerned, and the teaching power 
of the Nestors of business will be made more widely serviceable. 
A common study of the relation of business to our political life in 
the City, the State and the Nation will lead to a better under¬ 
standing by our public servants of the needs of the business com¬ 
munity and will also lead to a more constant and intelligent public 
service on the part of the citizens generally. The inter-dependence 
of public and private interests in all classes of our society, the 
inter-dependence of different peoples internationally will become 
more widely apprehended and the diplomacy of commercial rela¬ 
tions will tend toward the peace of the world. 

The people of the Netherlands within the sixteenth and seven¬ 
teenth century gave the world that leader of Renaissance education 
Erasmus, and Grotius the prophet of a new science of world- 
politics. Let this celebration reaffirm the historic care of the 
princes of commerce for the finer things of a world-art and litera¬ 
ture, and the new modern consciousness of a common life under 
enlightened law for the nations that dwell together in this world. 

“ Commerce and Art: ” Address by Mr. Edwin II. Blashfield 

The artist, Mr. Edwin H. Blashfield, spoke upon the subject of 
the relations of art and commerce. He said: 

I have the honor to speak of art in New York — New York 
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Some people look upon art as a field in which a relatively small 
group of people perform individual stunts, develop their person¬ 
ality. Art is much more than that. It is an embellishment of 
life which creates a pleasanter background to the daily existence 
of all. That is what it has been at best, what it should be, and in 
the movement towards this ideal condition in America, New York 
leads. 

In the last ten years the wave of enthusiasm for the arts has 
been rolling up with gathering volume and impetus, bearing upon 
it those institutions which are its concrete symbols and so many 
guarantees of its power for fertilizing good — the National 
Academy of Design, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Munici¬ 
pal Art Commission, the 'School Art League. The Academy in 
which artists learn to create and where painters, sculptors, archi¬ 
tects gather together in friendly rivalry. The Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, which stores the treasure and sets it before the 
people. The School Art League through which the children learn 
to appreciate that treasure. The Municipal Art Commission 
which is our censor and protector against mistaken or feeble 
endeavor. 

All these are New York's own ; all except the Academy are young 
institutions. Further off and upon a wider horizon, the National 
Fine Arts Commission and the American Academy of Rome stand 
ready to back us. 

I cannot speak of names, of Hunt, McKim, Lafarge, St. 
Gaudens, Ward, Homer and others who are alive and working 
still, for I have set myself five minutes and to talk of names would 
take hours. 

As for our great teacher, the Art of the past, such a culture of 
it has been growing as has existed only once before in the world. 

Our collectors have so identified themselves with it that to-day 
who ever says “ Raphael " or “ Rembrandt ” thinks instinctively 
too of Morgan and Altman and many others as our co-benefactors 
with those great artists. So compelling is this culture that for a 
moment recognition of the past seemed almost to make us forget 
that the present is the past of to-morrow and is also worth providing 
for. But our institutions aforesaid will take care of all that. 

What will our art of the present do for us in New York? 
Much! To-night’s is a commercial tercentenary. Art is a tre- 
mendous commercial asset. When you visit the Venus of Milo 
at the Louvre you do not pay a penny of gate-money. Neverthe¬ 
less the sums 'which have been expended on casts, books, photo¬ 
graphs of her goddessship would build railways. 

Art is a magnet. When a royal duke visits New York he goes 
first and last to the Metropolitan Museum. If a little Russian 
child or Italian baby enters our public schools, it goes with five 



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hundred other babies, the teachers at their head, to our Metropoli¬ 
tan Museum. We are learning to realize the prodigious impor¬ 
tance, the everlasting durability of iart. In science and commerce 
old forms become obsolete and are superseded. In art no great 
manifestation has ever lost its value. 

Art confers immortality. There were many greater pontiffs 
than Pope Innocent X, but Velasquez saw him, and a thin him of 
paint upon a canvas in the Colonna palace made him immortal. 

In Venice and Padua are two statues. Gattamelata and Col- 
leone were famous captains once. To-day what they did counts 
as nothing to them, but they are known throughout the western 
world because four hundred years ago, great sculptors set them on 
bronze horses to ride forever through men’s memories. 'Said Saint 
Augustine, “ Pictures are the books of the ignorant.” To teach 
the ignorant, the church used them. To-day in Paris the child 
who is too young to read, the peasant who is too ignorant, learn 
from pictures and sculpture in the Pantheon the history of their 
country. They see Charlemagne as civilizer, Joan of Arc as 
saviour of the country, Xapoleon not only a soldier but a law¬ 
maker, and so they learn. 

The artist is teaching with brush and chisel — teaching aesthet¬ 
ics, patriotism, morals. 

Here in America we propose to have no illiterate class. The 
artist will help us along the road to literacy. 

One thing we lack in Xew York — space for housing our art. 
Our wedge-shaped Manhattan which pushes us up into the air, 
which gives us the aspirant beauty of the Woolworth and other 
buildings, which, after the lights are lit makes lower Xew York 
look like an Aladdin’s palace — our wedge-shaped Manhattan, I 
repeat, deprives us of space. Pittsburg, Chicago, 'St. Louis, Buf¬ 
falo, Toledo, Philadelphia are hospitable of space for the arts. We 
are not as yet, but we shall be in time. Art pleases; art teaches; 
art immortalizes; and it is certain that you good Xew Yorkers 
will be friendly to that great force for good, to that public and 
municipal art which is a public and municipal educator. 

Other Addresses 

Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild, manufacturer and merchant and 
President of the Union League Club, had consented to speak on 
the subject of “ The Merchants of Xew York; ” and George Fred¬ 
erick Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.L>., scientist and President of the Xew 
York Academy of Sciences, had consented to speak on the subject 
of “ The Relation of Science and Commerce,” but owing to the 
lateness of the hour asked to be excused. 





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Benediction by Bishop Greer 

The benediction was pronounced by the Right Rev. David Id. 
Greer, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New 
York. 

The ushers were from the Bov Scouts of America; Mr. Loril- 

«y * 

lard Spencer, President of the New York City Council; Mr. 
Charles L. Pollard, Executive Deputy Scout Commissioner. 


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VII 

Local Festivals 

The local fiestas and pageants arranged by the Local Festivals 

Committee formed a distinctive and notable part of the celebra- 

« 

tion, carrying the meaning of the commemoration in a popular 
and effective way to the people in different parts of the great City. 
The Chairman of the Committee was Hon. William J. Lee, 'Super¬ 
visor of the Bureau of Recreation of the Department of Parks, and 
the Vice-Chairman was Edward W. iStitt, Ph.D., District Super¬ 
intendent of Schools of the Board of Education. These gentlemen 
brought to the work not only high personal qualifications but also 
the co-operation of the Departments of Parks and Education and 
numerous individuals and civic organizations allied in similar 
work. 

Six local celebrations were carried out under the auspices of 
this committee in different parts of the City on the following 
dates: 

Wednesday, August 12, 1914, at Curtis Field, Hew Brighton, in 
the Borough of Richmond. 

Tuesday, August 18, at Brooklyn Athletic Field in the Borough 
of Brooklyn. 

Wednesday, August 19, at Crotona Park in the Borough of the 
Bronx. 

Saturday, August 29, at Central Park in the Borough of Man¬ 
hattan. 

Wednesday, September 2, at Dongan Hills Fair Grounds, in the 
Borough of Richmond. 

Saturday, October 31, at Harlem in the Borough of Manhattan. 
Following are brief descriptions of each of these celebrations: 

At Curtis Athletic Field, Richmond Borough 

The celebration at Curtis Athletic Field, Hew Brighton, Staten 
Island, on Wednesday, August 12, 1914, was in the nature of a 
“ Festival of Hations,” arranged by Mr. Michael A. Jones, Super¬ 
visor of Playgrounds, with the co-operation of the principals and 
teachers of the various playgrounds under his supervision. The 
program was as follows: 


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1. Tableau — Purchase of New York from the Indians. 

2. Pledge to the American Flag — By the Nations. 

3. Parade of Nations. 

4. Assembly. 

5. America. 

6. Mass Drill. 

7. Gymnastic Dances—(a) 'Carousal; (b) Hungarian. 

8. National Folk Dances and 'Songs. 

(a) Germany—“ Watch on the Rhine.” 

(b) Ireland —“ Wearing of the Green.” 

(c) Scotland —“Annie Laurie.” 

(d) Italy—“ Funicula.” 

(e) Sicily—“Santa Lucia.” 

(f) Hungary—“ Hungarian National Anthem.” 

(g) America —“ Red, White and Blue.” 

(h) Russian—“ Russian National Anthem.” 

(i) Greece—“ Watch O’er the Flock.” 

9. Address. Hon James F. Sullivan. 

10. Exhibition Baseball Game. 

11. Athletic Meet—“ Boys’ Playground.” 

12. Finale—“ Star Spangled Banner.” 

About 4,000 boys and girls, attendants at the Vacation Play¬ 
grounds of Lower Manhattan, crossed the bay to Staten Island to 
participate in or witness these exercises. At the Curtis Athletic 
Field they joined the children of Richmond Borough. 

Around a tepee in the center of the field were seated the children 
impersonating Indians, calmly smoking and resting after a sup¬ 
posed hunt. The serenity of the scene was broken by the appear¬ 
ance of a scout whose information plunged the whole village in 
turmoil. Weapons were hastily seized, and led by the chiefs, the 
tribe went forth to face the invaders. The latter, however, 
appeared upon the horizon with hands upraised in the universal 
sign of peace. A short conference was held and the Dutch traders 
in the midst of the tribe returned to the village. The pipe of 
peace was lighted, passed from hand to hand and smoked by all. 
Then the merchandise chest w r as displayed and the land was pur¬ 
chased by the Dutch. After this the Dutch were entertained by 
the Indians with dance and song. 

The parade of nations was another interesting feature. The 
children were summoned by bugle call, and, led by 400 boys in 
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I ollowing the athletes came the kindergarten children carrying a 
display of raffia work; then in order the division of dancers. 
Each school was dressed in the garb of the nation whose dance it 
was to perforin. 

'Side by side in an immense tableau, gaily bedecked girls, 
Saxon and Russian, Slav and Italian, Irish, 'Scotch and English 
and other nationalities sang the airs of their native lands or the 
lands of their fathers. All united in singing not only the anthems 
of the lands they represented but also those of the lands repre¬ 
sented by others and the common land of all, for in the center of 
the great group, the “ 'Star 'Spangled Banner ” stood out in the 
breeze and it was around that staff that the other flags were clus¬ 
tered. This reverential and inspiring tableau was greatly 
applauded. 

The folk dances were also very picturesque. After the “ Watch 
on the Rhine ” had been sung by about three hundred German 
girls, the little dancers executed the intricate steps of a pretty 
dance of the Fatherland. Following the flutter of the golden harp 
that once “ sounded through Tara’s Halls ” and now emblazons its 
familiar field of emerald, Irish girls sang the “ Wearin’ of the 
Green ” and danced a rollicking jig. Then there was a skirl as of 
the pibroch, a whirl of tartans and the “ Highland Fling ” was 
tripped by a bevy of Scotch lassies. About a hundred girls uni¬ 
formed as English blue jackets danced a hornpipe and sang “ God 
Save the King.” Then came children in charming costumes of 
many colors dancing the folk dances of Russia, Southern Europe, 
Austria-Hungary, Italy and Greece, 

Many interesting and historical tableaux were shown depicting 
the steady advance and growth of the metropolis. 

The celebration was not only educational and patriotic, but was 
also noticeable for the whole-hearted joy shown by the participants. 

At Brooklyn Athletic Field , Brooklyn Borough 

The celebration at Brooklyn Athlethic Field, at Avenue K and 
East 17th Street, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, August 18, 1914, took 
the form of an historical pageant entitled “ Century -Steps in 


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Brooklyn’s Progress. 7 ’ It was produced by the children of the 
Brooklyn Vacation Playgrounds under the immediate direction of 
Mr. Eugene C. Gibney, Supervisor of Vacation Playgrounds, by 
about 4,000 children in the presence of about 10,000 spectators. 
The program was as follows: 

1. The Brooklyn Track and Field Championships. 

2. Prologue—Tableau, “ Father Knickerbocker and His 

Children.’ 7 

3. Playground Procession — Judging of Appearance. 

Music by Parental 'School Band, Fife and Drum Corps, 
V. P. G. Ho. 43, Sacred Heart Band and Kielgast’s 
Band. 

4. Drill by Girls. 

5. Drill by Boys. 

6. Combination Drill by Girls and Boys. 

7. The Dutch and Indians in Brooklyn in 1614. 

(a) Indian Hunting Dance. 

(b) Tableau — “Sale of Land at Gowanus.” 

(c) Dutch Wind Mill Dance. 

8. The English in Brooklyn in 1714. 

(a) Sailor’s Hornpipe. 

(b) Tableau—“Return of English after the Peace of 

Utrecht.” 

(c) The Minuet ('Colonial Dames). 

9. The Birth of the Star Spangled Banner (1814). 

(a) The National American Dance. 

(b) “ Francis Scott Key Writing the Star Spangled 

Banner ”— a tableau. 

(c) The 'Star Spangled Banner Dance. 

10. The Achievement of a Modern Brooklyn Schoolboy (1914). 

(a) Tableau —“ The Opening of the Panama Canal.” 

(b) The Pavlowa Gavotte. 

(c) Epilogue — Tableau, “The Products of Our Play¬ 

grounds and Schools.” 

(d) Waltz Dream. 

11. Huvler’s Parade. 

The drills performed by the boys and girls in the prologue 
tableau, showing Father Knickerbocker and his children, were 
designed to show that while European nations were engaged in 
training their youths for war, America was developing her young 
citizens into healthy, energetic, devoted patriots through her school 
systems. The combination drill brought together the largest num- 







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ber of school children ever drilled with apparatus simultaneously. 
Boys and girls executed separate drills at the same time, and the 
exercises were so interwoven that the effect gave a billowy and 
fairy like appearance to the whole field. 

The historical pageant emphasized the local history of Brooklyn. 
The year 1614 was represented by the “ Sale of Gowanus 77 — the 
enactment of an historical transaction in which the Indian Chief 
Maereckkaakwiek sold the land to the Dutch for a few insignifi¬ 
cant trinkets. The life of the period was portrayed in tableau 
form, in pantomime, and in costumed dances. The representa¬ 
tion of 1714, the English period in Brooklyn, was entitled the 
“ English in Brooklyn Two Centuries Ago.’ 7 The scene depicted 
the return of the English sailors to Gowanus after the French 
wars, which were concluded by the Peace of Utrecht. The life 
of the period was exemplified in tableau, pantomime and costumed 
dancing. The birth of “ the 'Star Spangled Banner 71 as the 
national anthem was chosen as the representative feature of the 
next century year, 1914. The tableau displayed Francis Scott 
Key composing the Star Spangled Banner on the deck of the 
English cruiser in the Chesapeake Bay. Two purely American 
dances specially written for the pageant supported this scene, viz., 
the American Dance and the Star Spangled Banner Dance. When 
the Star Spangled Banner was shown unfurled to the breeze over 
Fort McHenry, the whole field of thousands of children dropped 
to the left knee in silent reverent allegiance to their flag. The 
singing of the anthem and the dancing of the National American 
Dance completed one of the most tensely patriotic spectacles ever 
presented. The thousands of spectators simultaneously arose as 
the children dropped to the knee and the singing of our national 
song resounded through the stand and across the field. The period 
of 1914 was devoted to the two feats that stand out in the record 
of the mechanical and intellectual achievements of our nation, 
namely, the “ Building of the Panama Canal 77 and the “ Develop¬ 
ment of our School System. 77 The opening of the Panama Canal 
was portrayed by a tableau in which the waters of the Atlantic 
and Pacific were joined as Father Neptune looked on. The cur¬ 
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scenes showing great citizens emerging from the school. The 
dances executed in conjunction with these scenes were modern 
Hew York dances. 

The children made their own costumes after models and with 
materials supplied by the 'Commission. 

'Souvenirs in the shape of medals, badges, fans and boxes of 
candy, largely contributed, were distributed. 

At Crotona Athletic Field , Bronx Borough 

The ceremonies at Crotona Athletic Field in the Borough of the 
Bronx on Wednesday, August 19, 1914, consisted mainly of an 
historical pageant by the children of upper Manhattan and the 
Bronx under the immediate direction of Mr. Henry J. Silver- 
man, Supervisor of Vacation Playgrounds. Miss Tamali Axel 
collaborated with Mr. Silverman in planning and producing the 
tableaux. Two thousand children participated in the exercises 
and many thousands of spectators witnessed them. 

The pageant was preceded by musical selections and a parade 
entitled “ Historic Hew York,” which represented the peoples of 
various epochs. Then came six tableaux as follows: 

1 . Indian Epoch, (a) A Peublo runner appeared in the 
Indian Village, (b) He brought news to his brothers that the 
“ White Man ” had invaded the southwest, (c) He prophesied 
that the “ White Man ” would soon reach the East, (d) This 
prophesy came true, (e) The Indians then prepared for war by 
their bow and arrow drill and dances. 

2. Dutch Epoch. Hudson’s discovery brought the Dutch to 
Hew York, (a) The Dutch arrived as prophesied and traded 
with the Indians, (b) A chest of trinkets was exchanged by the 
Dutch for the furs and skins of the Indians. 

3. English Epoch, (a) The Duke of York having received a 
grant of land from Charles II, came to claim his own. (b) Then 
followed the lowering of the Dutch flag and the raising of the 
English flag. Thus, the English supplanted the Dutch, (c) The 
English Sailors’ Hornpipe was then danced by the different 
schools. 

4. The Colonial Epoch, (a) This tableau illustrated the cap¬ 
ture of Hathan Hale when the friction between England and 
America led to the Revolution, (b) The tableau was followed by 
a dance of the period, the Minuet. 


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5. The Melting Pot. This represented the era in which all 
peoples, no matter of what race or creed, welded and formed the 
“American.” This tableau was perhaps the most inspiring of all. 
(a) A huge cauldron was erected on the tableau platform, (b) 
As the medley of national airs was played, the children skipped to 
the “ Melting Pot” or cauldron, climbed up, and jumped into it. 
(c) Uncle 'Sam kept stirring the “ Pot” with a large spoon and 
melting or transforming the different nationalities. As the girls 
garbed in the costumes of the different nations emerged from the 
cauldron, they went down a slide, no longer Irish, Hungarian, 
Russian, etc., but full-fledged Americans. 

6. The Product of our “ Melting Pot.” This tableau was very 
spectacular, representing an array of the different peoples who had 
made American history since 1614. During this tableau, all the 
children, in proper march order, according to historical sequence, 
marched down the field in phalanx formation paying homage to the 
“ Colors ” and singing the Star Spangled Banner as they passed. 

In Central Park , Manhattan Borough 

The celebration in Central Park, Manhattan, on Saturday, 
August 29, 1914, was arranged with the co-operation of the 
Bureau of Recreation of the Department of Parks for Manhattan 
and Richmond Boroughs under the immediate direction of Hon. 
William J. Lee, Supervisor of the Bureau and Chairman of the 
Commission’s Festival Committee. It was called the Festival and 
Pageant of Manhattan. Mr. Lee was Director of the Pageant and 
Miss Mary E. McKenna assistant. The floats and properties were 
designed and built by Mr. William F. Hamilton. Five thousand 
children took part in the exercises and about 30,000 spectators 
witnessed them. The pageant, which was the most elaborate and 
artistic ever given by the playgrounds of the City, was produced 
on the Sheep Meadow playground on the west side of the park near 
66th Street and on the lake on the east side near 72nd Street. 

The pageant was preceded by a procession of 5,000 children in 
costumes of all nations which started from the Twelfth Regiment 
Armory, the place of assembly, at 61st 'Street and Columbus Ave¬ 
nue, and proceeded bv way of Broadway and Columbus Circle 
to the Park and thence by way of the West Drive, Mall and East 
Drive to the lake. At that, point there was a reproduction of the 
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tion by the Indians, after which the parade passed down the Mall 
and across the Green or Sheep Meadow to the scene of the tableaux. 
The order of procession was as follows: 

First Division 

Squad of Mounted Police. 

Grand Marshal, William J. Lee. 

Standard Bearers and Escorts. 

Lasher’s Military Band. 

Indian Period: Represented by the West 59th Street, Hudson 
Battery, Chelsea and Riverside Park Playgrounds and the 
Barrow Street Recreation Pier. 

Chieftain. 

Sub-ehieftain. 

Escorts. 

Medicine Man. 

Warriors. 

Pony drawing wigwam on tent poles. 

Squaws with papooses on their backs. 

Indian boys with bows and arrows. 

Indian girls making bead work. 

Dutch Period: Float Flo. 1. Represented by DeWitt Clinton 
Park Playground and West 50th Street Recreation Pier. 
Windmill drawn by millers. 

Peter Stuyvesant. 

Burgomasters. 

Peter Minuet. 

Watchman with lantern and staff (representing “ Police ”). 
Town Crier with Bell (representing “ Newspaper ”). 

Dutch boys with water yokes and pails. 

Dutch men carrying ox-yoke. 

Dutch girls with milk pails and stools. 

Dutch women with spinning flax, knitting, sewing. 

Early Education: Float No. 2. Represented by Jackson Square 
and Abingdon Square Park Playgrounds. 

New York’s First Red Brick School House. 

New York’s First Public School Teacher. 

Boy with Broom made of small branches to represent the 
care of school property. 

Boy with home-made bat and ball (representing the recess 
sports). 

Boys drawing home-made two-wheeled cart. 

Girl in cart (showing how some younger children were 
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Boys and girls carrying dinnerpails, baskets and flowers. 

“ Mary ” and her little lamb. 

Girls “ skipping ” to school. 

Education of today . Float No. 3. Represented by Seward, 
Corlears Hook, Five Points, East 17th Street Park Play¬ 
grounds, East 24th Street Recreation Pier, and Williamsburgh 
Bridge Esplanade Playground. 

On float -— Boys and girls of school age, teachers in Cap 
and Gown. 

Girls marching in crescent formation holding ribbons 
attached to the “ Torch of Knowledge.” 

Boys carrying school banners. 

Girls carrying floral wreaths on staffs. 

Graduates in Cap and Gown carrying ribbons attached to 
Diploma. 

Girls carrying garlands on poles. 

Recreation: Float No. 4. Represented by Tompkins Square, 
Hamilton Fish, Columbus, Battery, Corlears Hook, Cherry and 
Market Streets, and St. Gabriel’s Park Playgrounds, and Market 
Street Recreation Pier. 

Athletic boys and girls on float representing different 
sports and games — baseball, football, tennis, golf, swim¬ 
ming, canoeing, rowing, etc. 

Banners carried by boys, each with name of a baseball 
ground. 

Boys in Comedy Boat, which they tip, dip, and run in zig¬ 
zag course. 

Boys carrying paddles and oars in boating costume. 

Boys in hockey costume. 

Girls on skates. 

Boys and girls, tennis players, carrying net and racquets 
in playing formation. 

Football players carrying huge Football. 

Girls carrying huge Skipping Rope. 

Group of boys and girls in sporting costume. 

Tribute of the Nations: Float No. 5. Represented by Central 
Hudson, Battery, DeWitt Clinton, Chelsea, Clark, Watergate, 
Colonial, Hamilton Fish, Tompkins 'Square, St. Nicholas, River¬ 
side, Grace, Highbridge Park Playgrounds, West 129th 'Street 
and 3rd Street Recreation Piers. 

Title Banner, “ The Melting Pot.” 

Boys and girls in costumes of various nations, grouped on 
float, each holding the flag of the nation they represented. 
Miss New York in the center of “ Melting Pot.” 

Boys and girls in national costume carrying streamers 
attached to the “ Melting Pot.” 


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Industrial Education: Float No. 6. Represented by Thomas Jef¬ 
ferson, Carl Schurz, Yorkville and Central Park Playgrounds. 
On float—“ Queen of the Home.” 

Boys working at benches. 

Girls working on frosted cake. 

Boys carrying banners of various branches taught in 
Manual Training classes. 

Group of girls dressed as “ Bakers ” carrying Domestic 
Science banners. 

Cog Wheel: Float No. 7. Represented by Thomas Jefferson Park 
Playground: 

Drawn by boys representing mechanics. 

Band Box: Float No. 8. Represented by Queensboro, Ryan and 
John Jay Park Playgrounds: 

Drawn by girls dressed as milliners — festoons of flowers 
attached to band box held by girls. 

Commerce: Float No. 9. Represented by Mt. Morris, Yorkville, 
John Jay, St, Gabriel’s, Central, and Thomas Jefferson Park 
Playgrounds, and 11.2th Street Recreation Pier. 

Shield bearers “ Strength ” and u Reliability.” 

Symbolic figures “ Progress ” and u Science.” 

Boys carrying banners and insignia of trade and industry. 
Girls carrying flowers. 

Horn of Plenty: Float No. 10. 

Drawn by girls with sheaves of wheat, oats, and baskets of 
corn — representing agriculture. 

Grape Arbor: Represented by Central and Thomas Jefferson 
Park Playgrounds. 

Carried by girls. 

Twentieth Century automobile, girl. 

Second Division 

Usher’s Militarv Band. 

Marching Groups : 

Colonial (Martha and George Washington). Represented 
by Riverside, Grace and Chelsea Park Playgrounds, 
German. Represented by Clark and Highbridge Park Play¬ 
grounds, 

Irish. Represented by St. Nicholas and Watergate Park 
Playgrounds. 

Italian. Represented by St. Nicholas Park Playgrounds and 
West 129th Street Recreation Pier. 

Scotch. Represented by Carmensville and Colonial Park 
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Hebrew. • Represented by Hamilton Fish Park Playground 
and East 3rd Street Recreation Pier. 

Hungarian. Represented by Tompkins Square, Five Points 
and St. Gabriel’s Park Playgrounds. 

Third Division 

Boys Scouts — Baseball Players — Clowns. Represented by 

Bennett Field, Riverside Oval, Jasper Oval, Car mens ville, 

Reservoir and Hamilton Fish Playgrounds. 

The procession, having reached the Sheep Meadow, proceeded 
in review before the Grand 'Stand, turning and forming a huge 
crescent. The crescent having formed, the 'Standard Bearer pro¬ 
ceeded to center of Green and figures of Uncle Sam, Miss Colum¬ 
bia, Liberty, Justice, Opportunity and Plenty, led by Peace, 
marched in view. At this point all pledged allegiance to the Flag 
and sang the first stanza of “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” The 
banners, flags, etc., having been placed at the rear of the crescent, 
the dances proceeded in the following order: 

Indian. “ The Scalp Dance.” 

Dutch. “ Wooden Shoes.” 

Colonial. “ Minuet.” 

German. “ German Hopping Dance.” 

Irish. “ Country Dance.” 

Italian. “ Sieiliano.” 

Scotch. “ Highland Fling.” 

Hebrew. “ Komarinskaia.” 

Hungarian. “ Czeboga.” 

Industrial Education. “ Dance of the Bakers.” 

“ Dance of the Milliners.” 

Commerce. “ The Spirit of Commerce.” 

Tribute of the Nations: 

As a closing feature “ The People of ALL Nations ” joined in 
the general dance to the tune of “ Yankee Doodle.” The banners 
on the floats or leaning against them were raised as high as possible 
in the air. Father Knickerbocker and Miss Columbia joined Miss 
New York in the “Melting Pot” with Opportunity, Liberty, 
Justice, Plenty and Peace on the steps in front of it. The groups 
on the floats stood and raised the flags and banners, while everyone 
joined in the “Star Spangled Banner.” During the last few 
lines, “And long may it wave ” every flag, banner, hat, handker¬ 
chief and spear was waved in the sunlight until the end of the song. 




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Through the generosity of the business houses, 200 automobile 
trucks were loaned for the transportation of the children from 55 
centers of Manhattan to the park and return, and through similar 
liberality the children were feasted. At the expense of the Com¬ 
mission the happiness of the children was further increased by the 
presentation of toys and souvenirs. 

Among those who witnessed and highly complimented the page¬ 
ant were Mayor Mitchel and Hon. Cabot Ward, President of the 
Park Commission. 

At Dongan Hills Fair Grounds, Richmond Borough 

The fifth celebration was given at Dongan Hills Pair Grounds, 
Staten Island, on September 2, in co-operation with the Local Fes¬ 
tivals Committee, the Bureau of Recreation of the Department 
of Parks and the Richmond County Fair Officials. The children 
were conveyed on floats and busses from St. Peter's Playground, 
New Brighton, Staten Island, to the Fair Grounds and gave a fine 
entertainment depicting the history of Staten Island. The 
children had a very enjoyable day. Thousands turned out to see 
the affair, and the children dressed in the costumes of all nations 
were cheered along the line. 

Hallowe'en Festival at Harlem, Manhattan Borough 

The sixth local festival was given at Mount Morris Park. 
Harlem, on the afternoon of Saturday, October 31, 1914, and was 
styled a Hallowe’en Festival and Pageant of Harlem. It was held 
on the afternoon preceding the Commission’s general Historical 
Pageant which took place on the evening of the same day. The 
Harlem pageant was given under the joint auspices of the Local 
Festivals Committee, the Harlem Board of Commerce and the 
Bureau of Recreation of the Department of Parks. It depicted 
the history of Harlem for three hundred years. Five thousand 
children took part and 30,000 people witnessed the procession, 
pageant and games. The date, Hallowe’en, proved very fruitful 
for the children as tons of apples and nuts were contributed to the 
feast for the children. 

The procession marched from Public School No. 103 at 119th 
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110th Street, west to Lenox Avenue, north on Lenox Avenue to 

124tli Street and east on 124th Street to Mt. Morris Park West, 

where the festivals and dances were held on the Mt. Morris Park 

Green. The order of procession was as follows: 

First Division 

Squad of Mounted Police. 

Grand Marshal, William J. Lee. 

Standard Bearer and Escorts, 

Usher’s Military Band. 

Indian Period, 1614; Chieftain, sub-chieftain, escorts, medicine 
man, warriors, pony drawing wigwam on tent-poles, etc. 

Arrival of Dutch navigators commanded by Adriaen Block. 
Represented by Hudson and Chelsea Playgrounds. 

Dutch Period, 1626: Arrival of Peter Minuit on Manhattan 
Island, Purchase of Island by Dutch from Indians. Repre¬ 
sented by DeWitt Clinton Park Playground. 

Float No. 1, Windmill drawn by millers. 

Peter Stuyvesant. 

Watchman with lantern and staff. 

Town Crier, Cow-herder, Fire Warden, Inspector of 
Fences. 

Dutch girls with milk pails and stools —- spinning flax, 
knitting and sewing. 

Early Harlem Settlers, 1636: Mr. and Mrs. Henry DeForrest 
and Brother Isaac DeForrest. Represented by DeWitt Clinton 
Park Playground. 

Early Education, 1684: Represented by Mt. Morris Park Play¬ 
ground. 

Float No. 2. Harlem’s First blockhouse. 

The Spirit of ’76, 1776: Represented by Chelsea Park Play¬ 
ground. 

Washington Passing through Harlem, 1789: General and Mrs. 
Washington. Represented by Mount Morris Park Playground. 

A Day’s Trip from New York to Harlem by Coach, 1794: Repre¬ 
sented by Queensborough Park Playground. 

Installation of Harlem’s Horse-cars, 1837, later succeeded by cable 
and electric lines. 

Installation of Gas in Harlem, 1857. 

Development, 1900-1914: 

Education of Today. Float No. 3. Represented by Sew¬ 
ard Park and Mt, Morris Park Playgrounds. 

Recreation. Float No. 4. Represented by Tompkins 
Square, Hamilton Fish, Columbus, Cherry and Market, 
Corlears Hook and 'St. Gabriel’s Park Playgrounds. 


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Industrial Education. Float No. 5. Represented by 
Yorkville, Carl Schurz and Thomas Jefferson Park 
Playgrounds. 

Oog Wheel. Float No. 6. Represented by Thomas Jef¬ 
ferson Park Playground. 

Band Box. Float No. 7. Represented by Queensboro and 
John Jay Park Playgrounds. 

Commerce. Float No. 8. Represented by Mt. Morris, 
Yorkville, John Jay and Thomas Jefferson Park Play- 
grounds. 

Tribute to The Nations (Melting Pot). Float No. 9. 

Represented by all of the Park Playgrounds. 

Horn of Plenty. Float No. 10. Represented by Thomas 
Jefferson Park Playground. 

Second Division 
(Marching Groups) 

Colonial Dames and Youths. Represented by Chelsea Park 
Playground. 

German. Represented by Carl 'Schurz Park Playground. 

Irish. Represented by East 17th Street Park Playground. 
Italian. Represented by Thomas Jefferson Park Playground. 
Scotch. Represented by Carmensville and Colonial Park Play¬ 
grounds. 

Hebrew. Represented by Hamilton Fish Park Playground. 
Hungarian. Represented by Tompkins Square Park Playground. 
Boy Scouts, Baseball and Football Players (Football Rush) and 
Clowns. Represented by Jasper Oval, Carmensvllie and South 
Meadow, Central Park Playgrounds. 

The procession having reached the Green, it passed in review 
before the grand stand, encircled the field and took position facing 
the field. The standard bearer proceeded to the center of the field, 
and then Uncle Sam, Miss Columbia, Liberty, Justice, Oppor¬ 
tunity and Plenty, led by Peace, marched in review. At this 
point all pledged allegiance to the flag and sang “America.” Then 
followed the dances and games in this order: 

Indian “ Scalp Dance,” by children from Hudson and Chelsea 
Park Playgrounds. 

Dutch “ Wooden Shoes,” DeWitt Clinton Park Playground. 
Colonial “ Minuet,” Chelsea Park Playground. 

German “ Rhinelander,” Carl Schurz Park Playground 
Irish “ Top of the Cork Road,” East 17th Street Playground. 
Italian “ Siciliano,” Thomas Jefferson Park Playground. 


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Scotch “ Highland Fling/’ Carmensville and Colonial Park Play¬ 
grounds. 

Hebrew Court Dance,” Hamilton Fish Park Playground. 
Hungarian “ Czeboga,” Tompkins Square Park Playground. 
Commercial “ Sailor’s Hornpipe,” Mount Morris Park Play¬ 
ground. 

Then there were Hallowe’en games by children from Five Points 
and Corlear’s Hook, refreshments, and a general frolic. 

The success of the Harlem pageant was especially due to the 
Harlem Board of Commerce whose members contributed their 
time, energy and substance not only toward this particular event 
but also toward making the whole week a Carnival Week in that 
part of the City. The Chairman of the Harlem Carnival General 
Committee was Mr. Francis Wright Clinton, and the Chairmen 
of the sub-committees were Messrs. Adelbert S. Nichols, Edward 
W. Forrest, Charles H. Fuller, Nathan Lemlein, Louis 'S. Weber, 
Charles H. Potter, Robert Levers, Samuel Wallach, Edward F. 
Callan, William J. Lee, William J. Meara, Joseph Dorf, George 
V. W. Pelz, T. P. Ward, Robert J. Setchanove, P. L. Campbell 
and Dr. J. Gardner Smith. 

At the close of the Carnival the Harlem Carnival Committee 
presented a diamond pin to Mr. William J. Lee, Chairman of the 
Commission’s Local Festivals Committee, as a token of apprecia¬ 
tion of his work with the children. 


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VIII 

Religious Services 

The idea of holding, in connection with the Tercentenary cele¬ 
bration a notable religious service as well as services in places 
of worship generally was suggested by General Carroll when the 
original report of the Plan and Scope ’Committee was made but 
did not prove feasible at the beginning of the series of observances 
in March. The Religious Services Committee, however, carried 
out the idea in a very effective manner on Sunday, October 25, 
1914, by a great pan-denominational meeting held in the Hippo¬ 
drome, which served as a fitting introduction to the culminating 
features of the celebration. The Chairman of the Committee was 
Hon. John D. Crimmins and the Vice-Chairman was Christian 
F. Reisner, D.D., pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. 
The Commission’s committee had the valuable co-operation of a 
committee of clergymen representing the Protestant, Roman 
Catholic and Jewish churches, consisting of David James Burrell, 
D.D., Chairman; Frank Oliver Hall, D.D., Secretary; Charles A. 
Eaton, I).D., Father E. G. Fitzgerald, O.P., John Haynes 
Holmes, D.D., A. Edwin Keigwin, H.D., John P. Peters, D.H., 
Christian F. Reisner, D.D., Junius B. Remensnyder, D D., and 
Rabbi Joseph Silverman, D.D. 

The key-note of the arrangements of this committee was “ God 
in History.’’ This was the theme of the Hippodrome meeting and 
of the special service elsewhere. In this connection, the com¬ 
mittee issued a 12-page historical pamphlet written by Messrs. 
Willard and Gene Price entitled “ God in Hew York’s History.” 

The meeting at the Hippodrome began at 3 p. m. An immense 
crowd was present, and it is believed to have been the first time 
in the history of the City when all denominations united in a com¬ 
mon religious service. Hr. Burrell presided. The order of serv¬ 
ice was as follows: 

Music by the Police Band of 70 musicians from 2.30 to 3.00 p. m. 
Invocation, by Hr. Bickie, formerly pastor of the American 

Church at Berlin. 

Chorus, by 1.200 singers under the leadership of Tali Esen 

Morgan. 


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Hymn, “America.” 

Scripture Reading, by Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes, D.D., Minister 
of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel. 
Prayer, by Rev. Luther B. Wilson, D.D., LL.D., M.D., Bishop 
of the Methodist Episcopal 'Church. 

Chorus 

Address, by Rev. S. Parks Cadman, D.D., pastor of the Central 
Congregational Church of Brooklyn. 

Hymn, “ The Guiding Hand.” 

Greetings, in behalf of Governor Martin H. Glynn, by Hon. 

George McAneny, President of the Board of Aldermen. 
Address, by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. 

Hymn, “ God of Our Fathers.” 

Benediction, by the Right Rev. Charles Burch, D.D., Suffragan 
Bishop of New York. 

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Mayor Mitchel spoke as follows: 

Mr. Chairman, Reverend Gentlemen, and Ladies and Gen¬ 
tlemen: Fitting it is that the Union Religious Service in connec¬ 
tion with the Tercentenary Celebration of our City’s commercial 
birth should inaugurate the exercises of the week. The union of 
religious forces signifies many things which are of deepest import 
to the future welfare of the City and of the Nation alike. For one 
thing the gathering of all of the religious elements and factors of 
the population of our City is a reminder of the contribution during 
the past three centuries of religious idealism to the life of our 
City and an augury that this idealism will remain in the future 
even more fully the ethical basis of our civilization. In this great 
City of ours devoted to peace and progress under civilization, 
now at this world crisis, when the mediaeval spirit of barbarism 
is abroad among the nations of Europe and the greatest demands 
are being made upon our own ethical resources, it is fitting that 
the churches of the City should come together on this three hun¬ 
dredth anniversary of the beginning of our commercial greatness 
to emphasize the fact that progress and civilization both rest upon 
an ethical foundation, and to endure must be inspired by an ideal¬ 
ism. At the basis of ethical civilization stands religion. It is 
proper then that the churches should come together as a part of 
this tercentenary celebration to remind us that however great our 
commerce, however expansive our trade, however splendid our 
prosperity, however mighty our physical resources, the civilization 
which we boast, to endure and to achieve its end, the happiness 
and well-being of all, must rest upon ethical foundations and a 
moral purpose. Trade and commerce are necessary to community 
life, but they are not the object of life or the measure of progress. 


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The object of trade and of commerce is to develop the physical 
resources of mankind; the object of government is to develop also 
to the highest degree the human resources of mankind; and if it 
would answer to the full measure of its responsibility it must 
strive for the fulfillment of the spiritual and religious ideals of 
mankind. This government recognizes and strives to exemplify in 
its aims and operations that civilization has an ethical object. 
Behind the work of health preservation in New York lies not 
merely the desire to secure the greatest measure of comfort and 
convenience, but the impulse to maintain human life which has 
been given by the Creator to do the work of the world. Behind 
the charitable work of this government lies not merely the impulse 
of kindliness or the desire to secure to the more fortunate that 
sense of mental rest and spiritual satisfaction that springs from 
generosity and the knowledge of relief afforded to the destitute 
and suffering, but the deep ethical purpose of rehabilitation to a 
plane and to a self-respect that will enable the individual to work 
out his own highest destiny. Behind the work of correction lies 
not merely the purpose to punish and to deter, but the ideal of 
moral regeneration and a restoration to usefulness and to self- 
respect. Behind public education lies not merely the purpose to 
prepare for the physical and economic struggle of life, but the 
ethical ideal of capitalizing to the fullest extent the possibilities 
of the human individual. 

This meeting, ladies and gentlemen, of the representatives of 
virtually all of the religious forces of the community means that 
the churches are coming to feel more deeply than ever that they 
have a part and a great part to play in the upbuilding of these 
things, which in the deepest sense constitute the City’s life. This 
City of New York is not a matter of geographical name or desig¬ 
nation. This City of New York is not a matter of trade and com¬ 
merce, of imports and exports. This City of New York is not a 
matter of population, howsoever many be the millions dwelling 
within its borders. This City is the collective life of a great mass 
of men and women working out their individual destinies under 
the flag of freedom and of justice, and together bent upon serving 
the highest interests of all. It is right then that the churches 
should hold up a high ideal before the citizenship of New York and 
before the men by it chosen to administer its affairs. It is right 
that the churches should be unsparing of criticism whenever there 
be evil in the life of the City. And, on the other hand, the 
churches ought to be generous in upholding the hands of those 
entrusted with government whenever they are faithful to their trust 
and dedicated to the furtherance of the City’s truest interest. It 
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is possible upon certain terms which are illustrated in part by the 
meeting of this hour. For one thing: New York, this peaceable 
blending of a great number of heterogeneous elements, is made pos¬ 
sible upon the basis of adherence to the American and democratic 
ideal of self-government. The citizens of New York rule them¬ 
selves. No element or group of the population controls any other. 
New Fork is a self-governing City, wherein all men are equal 
before the law, just to all and partial to none. In the next place: 
The life of our great City is made possible upon a basis of mutual 
respect between all the divers elements and factors of our popu¬ 
lation. No church here represented to-day waives its own integ¬ 
rity or individuality because it has part in a Union service. In 
the same way, no element of the foreign population is asked to 
surrender that of its racial or national or religious integrity which 
is compatible with American citizenship and the collective interests 
of the City. Self-surrender is asked of no race or nation or faith, 
but every nation and race and faith represented in the life of New 
York is asked to render a maximum of service to our common 
City. The life of our City is based upon a common devotion on 
the part of all of us to the ideals of the City. What New York 
will be on the morrow will be determined by our ideal of service 
to the City to-day, and the measure of our dedication to the reali¬ 
zation of that ideal. I hold it to be a high augury of the Greater 
New York of the centuries that are to come that at the comple¬ 
tion of the first three hundred years of the City’s life the historic, 
religious bodies of our City are assembled and by the token of this 
meeting dedicate themselves and their peoples anew to the service 
of New York. 

A collection for war relief amounting to $796.30 was taken up 
and transmitted to the American National Red Cross, New York 
State Chapter, of which Mr. Jacob H. Schiff is Treasurer. 

Recognition of the blessings of three centuries of progress was 
also made in the places of worship of the different denominations 
on Saturday, October 24, and Sunday, October 25, according to 
their own forms. 


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Music Festivals 

On Monday, October 26, 1914, another series of events was 
inaugurated, designed, like the Local Festivals, to carry the cele¬ 
bration to the people in the different parts of the great City. 
These were the eleven Music Festivals given by the Commission 
under the direction of Prof. Henry T. Fleck, Professor of Music 
at Hunter College, and Chairman of the Music Festivals Com¬ 
mittee of the Commission, with the co-operation of the Board 
of Education. They were held at the following places: 

Monday, October 26, College of the City of Hew York, Amsterdam 
Avenue and 139th-Street, Manhattan Borough. 

Tuesday, October 27, Washington Irving High School (Municipal 
Theatre), 16th 'Street and Irving Place, Manhattan Borough. 
Thursday, October 29, Erasmus Hall High School, Flatbush and 
Church Avenues, Brooklyn Borough. 

Friday, October 30, Commercial High School, Albany Avenue and 
Dean Street, Brooklyn Borough. 

Sunday, November 1, East Side Forum, Public School Ho. 62, 
Hester, Essex and Norfolk Streets, Manhattan Borough. 
Monday, November 2, College of the City of New York, Manhat¬ 
tan Borough. 

Tuesday, November 3, Manual Training High School, 7th Avenue 
and 5th Street, Brooklyn Borough. 

Wednesday, November 4, Eastern District High School, Marcy 
Avenue and Keap Street, Brooklyn Borough. 

Thursday, November 5, People’s Institute, Public School No. 17, 
West 47th Street near 8th Avenue, Manhattan Borough. 
Friday, November 6, Morris High School, 166th Street and Boston 
Road, Bronx Borough. 

Saturday, November 7, Washington Irving High School (Muni¬ 
cipal Theatre), 16th Street and Irving Place, Manhattan 
Borough. 

Although these festivals can be described briefly, they ranked 
in importance and excellence with any other part of the celebra¬ 
tion. They took place in the evening in the splendid auditoriums 
of the places mentioned, to which admission was free, and were 


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thronged to overflowing. It is estimated that from 28^000 to 
30,000 attended the eleven festival's, not counting about 15,000 
who were turned away, unable to gain admission. The only place 
at which it was not necessary to close the doors to exclude those 
who could not be accommodated was at Public School No. 17. At 
the first festival, in the Great Hall of the College of the City of 
IN ew I ork, not only were the seats filled, but people also sat on the 
steps to the platform, and two men and two women even sat on the 
floor of the platform under the piano. The latter four were 
invited to change their location. At the same concert, as many 
people were turned away as gained admission. One of the dis¬ 
appointed crowd outside of the City College on the first night was 
Mr. Lionel Mapleson, librarian of the Metropolitan Opera House, 
who afterward said that while he regretted that he could not get 
into the Great Hall, he was compensated in large measure by the 
wonderful experience which lie had outside. It was a beautiful 
moonlight night; and he said that as he stood outside of that great 
pile of stone buildings, themselves beautiful works of architecture, 
with the moon shining between its towers, the interior light filter¬ 
ing out through the windows, and thousands of people standing 
silently outside listening to the music from within, it seemed to 
him as if the college was a great cathedral, and he was deeply 
impressed. 

There was a change of program at each festival, the music being 
both orchestral and vocal. During the festivals, the following 
artists appeared: Signor Andra de 'Segurola, baritone from the 
Metropolitan Opera staff; Mme. Bernice de Pasquali, soprano 
from the Metropolitan Opera staff; Mrs. Edith Chapman Goold, 
soprano; Miss Inez Barbour, soprano; Miss Rose Bryant, con¬ 
tralto; Miss Grace Hoffman, soprano; Miss Florence McGibney, 
soprano; Mr. James Stanley, baritone; Mr. Albert von Doenhoff, 
pianist; Mr. Maurice Kaufman, pianist. The opening number of 
the inaugural festival at the City College on October 26 was con¬ 
ducted by Prof. Fleck, but on other occasions Leo Schultz and 
Arthur Bergh conducted the music. At some of the festivals, 
informal addresses appropriate to the celebration were delivered. 

The programs of the two festivals in the Great Hall of the Col¬ 
lege of the City of New York may be given as typical of all. That 
of the festival of October 26 was as follows: 


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Vorspiel from “ Die Meistersinger ” (Wagner), by the Orchestra. 
Nocturne ('Chopin) and Elfentanz (Popper), by Leo Schulz. 
Aria “ Leporella ” from “ Don Giovani ” (Mozart), by Andre de 
Segurola. 

L’Arsienne (Bizet), by the Orchestra. 

Aria from “ Mignon ” (Ambroise Thomas), by Bernice de 
Pasquali. 

Piano Concerto in E flat (Liszt), by Albert von Doenhoff. 

Duet, “ Laeidarem ” (Mozart), by Mme. de Pasquali and Signor 
de Segurola. 

Overture to “ Rienzi ” (Wagner), by the Orchestra. 

The program at the City College on November 2 was as follows : 

“ Ruy Bias (Mendelssohn), by the Orchestra. 

Aria, by Miss Inez Barbour 

Violin Concerto in G Minor (Bruch), by Maurice Kaufman. 

Aria, by James Stanley. 

“ Siegfried Idyl (Wagner), by the Orchestra. 

Duet, by Miss Barbour and Mr. Stanley. 

Waltz from “ Tales of Vienna ” (Strauss), by the Orchestra. 


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X 

Illuminations 

During the week beginning Monday, October 26, 1914, the 
spirit of festivity was further heightened by the illumination of 
certain thoroughfares in the heart of Manhattan Borough under 
the auspices of the Commission, and by the illumination of many 
private buildings by their owners. The official illuminations were 
arranged by the Committee on Illuminations, of which Mr. Arthur 
Williams was Chairman and Mr. E. A. Norman was Vice-Chair¬ 
man, according to designs approved by Mr. Charles R. Lamb, the 
artist, who was 'Chairman of the Committee on Decoration and 
Design. 

For a distance of about two miles, beginning at Columbus Circle 
('Central Park West and 59th Street), long festoons of incan¬ 
descent lights were stretched along either side of the street through 
59th Street to Fifth Avenue, down Fifth Avenue to 34th Street, 
and across 34th 'Street to Broadway,— the streets mentioned form¬ 
ing part of the route of the two great street parades held on Octo¬ 
ber 28 and October 31. 

In a similar way, festoons of lights were erected on both sides 
of Lexington Avenue from 42nd Street to the Grand Central 
Palace at 46th 'Street, and thence west through 46th ’Street to 
Broadway. 

These festoons consisted of loops of galvanized stranded iron 
wire one-eighth of an inch in diameter, from which were suspended 
incandescent lamps about two feet apart. These were sustained 
by iron poles about 100 feet apart, ingeniously made with heavy 
concrete bases so that it was not necessary to make excavations in 
the sidewalks or roadways for their erection. At the top of each 
pole was a 300-watt, type C tungsten lamp, and a triangular pen¬ 
nant displaying the official colors of the Commission —orange, 
white and blue. The intermediate lamps were generally the ordi¬ 
nary white lights, occasionally interspersed with lamps showing 
the other two official colors, orange and blue. There were 
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erected by the Tucker Electrical Construction Co., and the E. B c 
Stott'Co., and the current was supplied without charge by the New 
York Edison Company. The generosity of the latter enabled the 
Commission, by means of the expenditure of a trifle less than 
$10,000, to produce a very attractive display which added greatly 
to the success of the celebration. 

The lights on 59th Street, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street were 
turned on every evening for six nights beginning October 26, and 
those on Lexington Avenue and 46th Street were illuminated every 
night from November 7 to November 21, during which latter 
period the Commercial Exhibition was held in the Grand Ceneral 
Palace. 

The growing favor of electrical illuminations as a mode of 
public celebration was manifest in the Commercial Tercentenary 
celebration as on former occasions. The first notable display of 
this kind was that of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909, and 
it has been followed by similar if less elaborate illuminations on 
similar festive occasions since. Since the inauguration of the 
“ safe and sane” Fourth of July celebrations in New York five 
years ago, electric illuminations have almost entirely displaced 
fireworks with their attendant dangers to life and property. The 
Tercentenary illuminations served the triple purpose of attracting 
public attention to the celebration, illuminating the great evening 
parades, and imparting a spirit of festivity to the people generally 


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XI 

Automobile Parade 

The next important event in the celebration in chronological 
order was the Automobile Parade which was held on the evening 
of Wednesday, October 28, 1914. 

When the Commission was first organized, the recommendations 
of the Plan and Scope Committee of which Gen. Howard 'Carroll 
was Chairman, contemplated several great street parades of a 
military, civic and commercial character, but owing to the unpro- 
pitious state of affairs alluded to in the first chapter of this report, 
it was decided to have only two, namely, an Automobile Parade 
on Wednesday, October 28, and an Historical and Commercial 
Parade on Saturday, October 31. Both of these were held in the 
evening, as the merchants of the City had expressed the opinion 
that parades in the day-time drew customers away from their 
stores instead of attracting customers to them, and that the great 
parades should be held in the evening so as not to interfere with 
business. These two parades were especially creditable in view of 
the shortness of the time within which they were arranged and 
the peculiar obstables with which the Commission had to contend. 

Prior to August 12, 1914, no effective work had been done in 
the way of organizing these two features of the celebration. At 
the Trustees’ meeting held on that day, Mr. Louis Annin Ames 
consented, at great personal sacrifice, to take the Chairmanship of 
a new Committee on Commercial Pageants, to arrange for the two 
parades before referred to. Hits colleagues on that Committee 
were Messrs. Herbert L. Bridgman, Francis Wright Clinton, Rob¬ 
ert Grier Cooke, Joseph L. Delafield, George H. Duck, Henry T. 
Fleck, Herbert F. Gunnison, Charles R. Lamb, William J. Lee, 
A. E. MacKinnon, E. A. Norman, Elmer Thompson and Edward 
W. 'Stitt, Ph.D. Upon this Committee devolved the enormous 
task of organizing from the very beginning, and within a period of 
eleven weeks, these two great parades. Their success under the 
circumstances was remarkable and highly creditable to the Com¬ 
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The work was divided into two parts, that relating to the Auto¬ 
mobile Parade and that relating to the Historical and Commercial 
Parade. Reserving the latter for a succeeding chapter, we will 
give some details of the Automobile Parade. 

For the purpose of the Automobile Parade an Automobile 
Auxiliary Committee was formed with headquarters at the Auto¬ 
mobile Club of America, on West 54th Street, west of Broadway. 
Mr. Elmer Thompson, Secretary of the Automobile Club, was 
Chairman ; Mr. George H. Duck, President of the Motor Truck 
Club of America, Vice-Chairman; and Mr. Merle L. Downs, for 
many years associated with large automobile enterprises, Secre¬ 
tary. The Automobile Auxiliary Committee in turn organized 
fourteen sub-committees with the following Chairmen: 

Accessories and Tires: William M. Sweet. 

Automobile Importers: Emanuel Lascaris. 

Automobile Manufacturers: Alfred Reeves. 

Automobile Owners and Clubs: A. G. Batch elder. 

Automobile Trade Press: Julian C. Chase. 

Brooklyn Automobile Dealers and Garages: H. L. Carpenter. 

City, State and Interstate Participation: William J. Lee. 

Daily Press: John C. Wetmore. 

Electric Vehicles: Harvey Robinson. 

Hotels and Amusements: IT. M. Swetland. 

Motor Cycles: Powhatan Robinson. 

Hew York Automobile Dealers and Garages: M. J. Budlong. 

Parade: W. C. Poertner. 

Transportation, Light and Power: R. W. Meade. 

To encourage entries in this parade, the Commission authorized 
the offering of prizes amounting to $5,000. 

For the parades of October 28 and October 31 two official 
reviewing stands, each with a seating capacity of 2,500 were 
erected. One was over the sidewalk in front of the Hew York 
Public Library on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, 
and one was on West 59th Street near Columbus Circle. The 
parades were reviewed by the officials from the former. Of the 
5,000 seats thus provided, 2,000 were given to the Board of Aider- 
men for the Mayor, Board of Estimate, Board of Aldermen and 
heads of City Departments; and 3,000 were given to the Com¬ 
mission for the Governor, State officials, Legislature, members of 
the Commission, contributors and exhibitors. The stand in front 


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of the Public Library was simply but tastefully decorated with 
flags, flowers and the colors of the Commission. 

The weather on the evening of the Automobile Parade was fair 
but cool. About 7 o’clock, Gen. Howard Carroll, President of the 
Commission, Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Grand Marshal, and a com¬ 
mittee of the Commission with a mounted police escort, called at 
the Democratic Club for Governor Glynn and his staff and escorted 
them to the Plaza Hotel where they joined Mayor Mitchel and 
another committee and a brief reception was held. Thence the 
Governor, Mayor and officials of the Commission proceeded in 
automobiles to the starting point of the parade at Fifth Avenue 
and 125th Street. 

Meanwhile, the procession, numbering about 3,000 automobiles, 
had been forming in divisions in streets adjacent to that point 
and hundreds of thousands of people had been gathering along the 
line of march. It is estimated that 800,000 persons saw the 
procession. 

The line of march was through 125th Street, Morningside Ave¬ 
nue, Manhattan Avenue, 110th Street, Broadway, 59th Street, 5th 
Avenue, and 34th Street to Broadway, and then northward 
through Broadway to Columbus Circle, the point of dispersal. 

Upon arrival at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue, the official 
party, with the Governor and Mayor, immediately started at the 
head of the procession and went over the line of march as far as 
the reviewing stand in front of the Public Library on Fifth Ave¬ 
nue between 40th and 42nd Streets. 

On account of the great speed of the official automobiles, they 
and the motor-cycle policemen reached the reviewing stand some¬ 
what in advance of the main part of the procession. The latter 
reached the stand at 9.30 p. m., and continued passing in review 
until midnight. 

The procession was headed by and interspersed with bands of 
music. After the leading band came the Standard float, bearing 
the flags of the United States, the State, the City and the 
Commission. 

The cars of Grand Marshal Louis Annin Ames and Marshal 
William C. Poertner were next in line, followed by members of 
the Pageant Committee. Then came Governor Glynn, escorted 


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by Gen. Howard Carroll, Judge Alton B. Parker, Dr. George F. 
Kunz and Mr. Henry B. Anderson. Mayor Mitchel was escorted 
by Mr. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild and the Secretary 
of the Commission. 

The escorting organizations then followed: The Automobile 
Club of America, the Long Island Automobile Club, The Kew 
York Automobile Dealers’ Association, and the Brooklyn Auto¬ 
mobile Dealers’ Association. 

The Motorcycle Division was next in line, headed by Assistant 
Marshal J. A. Hall. This division was followed by floats repre¬ 
senting The Indians of 1614 and 1914,” escorted by Indian 
Motorcycle riders. Another float was escorted by Harley-David- 
son riders. Then came one, “ From the Hobby-Horse of 1846 to 
the Pope Motorcycle of 1914,” escorted by Pope Motorcycle riders. 
The remainder of this division was made up of Excelsior, Yale, 
Emblem, and Thor Motorcycle riders. 

At the head of the automobile Division, which came next, rode 
Assistant Marshal Samuel S. Toback. ’Several early models of 
automobiles were then seen — an 1899 Panhard, a 1902 Olds- 
mobile, and a 1902 Pierce-Arrow. 

In the Grotesque Division, special mention should be accorded 
“ John Dough,” entered by the Fleischmann Company, “ The 
Michelin Tire Twins,” and the “ Christmas Ship ” and “ Locomo¬ 
tive ” of the Oldsmobile Company; there were entries also by Miss 
M. L. Cooper, J. B. Greenhut & Company, F. Schumacher, and 
Douglas Fairbanks. 

Marshals Aide William Parkinson headed the Division of 

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Decorated 'Cars, in which there were entries by F. Braguglia, 
Columbus Circle League, Franklin & Walsh, J. P. Grady, Miss 
Josephine Guntzer, Johnson Shock Absorber Co., Frank Knepfer, 
Dr. S. A. Knopf, I. Messier, M. Worth Oollwell, O. C. Orlitz & 
Co., S. B. Bowman Auto Co., Buick Motor Co., Harry S. Houpt 
Co., Oldsmobile Co., of Hew York, Poertner Motor Car Co., Reo 
Motor Car Co., Charles E. Riess & Co., William Schling, John 
W. Cleary, Allen Auto Specialty Go., King Motor Car 'Co. 

Horace A. Bonnell and Charles A. Stewart were MarshalV 
Aides in charge of the Division of Automobile Clubs. 

Then came the Dealers’ Fleets, each headed by a float, as 
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Arlitz & Co., Metz Cars. 

Benz Automobile Co., Benz and Kissel Cars. 

•S. B. Bowman Auto Co., Oaklands. 

Briscoe Sales Co., Briscoes. 

Buick Motor Car Co., Buicks. 

Chevrolet Motor Co., Chevrolets. 

Colt-Stratton Co., Coles. 

Delamater Byrnes Auto Co., Krits. 

Diamond Warren Motor Co., Herff Brooks. 

Harry S. Houpt, Inc., Mitchells. 

Maxwell Motor Sales Corp., Maxwells. 

Oldsmobile Co., of New York, Oldsmobiles. 

Beo Motor Car Co., Reos. 

Charles E. Riess & Co., Hupmobiles. 

Brady-Murray Motor Corp., Chandlers. 

The Division of Electric Pleasure Cars was especially attract¬ 
ive; it included the Bakers, entered by the Baker Electric Vehicle 
Company; the Detroits, entered by the Anderson Electric Car 
Company; and the Rauch & Langs, entered by the Rauch & Lang 
Carriage Company. 

George H. Robertson was Assistant Marshal in command of the 
Municipal Division, which included entries from the Fire, Police, 
and Correction Departments of New Y r ork City. 

Then followed the Decorated Commercial Cars, with Mr. Henry 
De Bear as Marshal’s Aide. 'Cars were entered by: Edward 
Callan, Central Brewing Co., Piel Brothers Brewery Co., Royal 
Eastern Electrical Supply Co., J. R. Senor, Weber-McLoughlin 
Co., Charles F. Duffy, Terminal Express Co., Waldorf-Astoria 
Cigar Co., Mercury Rubber Co., Deerfoot Farm Co., Firestone 
Tire and Rubber Co., F. Fleischman, S. Karpen & Bros., Fred 
Neimer, Inc., Strauss & Co., Inc., C. H. Minner, David Bernstein, 
W. L. Carey, I. Pringle, Malandre Bros. 

Colonel J. C. Pardee was the Marshal of the Division of Com¬ 
mercial Fleets entered by owners. B. T. Babbitt, Edward Callan, 
Columbia Storage & Warehouse Co., New York Edison Co., 
Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Co., Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., Piel 
Brothers Brewery Co., 'Stewart Automobile Academy, Weber- 
McLoughlin Co., Brooklyn Eagle, New York Herald, Peter 
Doelger, Sulzberger & Sons Co., were some of those who had 
entries. 

Mr. Arthur D. Cumner was Marshal’s Aide for Commercial 


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Fleets entered by dealers, which included the Autocar Sales Co., 
General Motor Truck Co., Knox Automobile Co., Benz Automo¬ 
bile Co., Garland Automobile Co., and others. 

Lastly came the Advertising Floats, of which Mr. E. C. J. 
McShane was Assistant Marshal. There was an almost limitless 
number and variety of these exhibits, and it was after midnight 
when the last of them passed the reviewing stand. 

The Few York Sun of October 29 said: “ It is probably not 
exaggerating to say that never before has there been an automobile 
parade of such magnitude.” And the American said: u The 
parade was not only the largest but the most brilliant aud spec¬ 
tacular demonstration of motor vehicles ever seen in this City.” 

After the parade, the Automobile Club gave a reception at its 
Club-house in honor of the Governor. Mr. James A. Blair, Jr., 
was master of ceremonies. About 400 members and guests were 
present. 

The automobile dealers in “Automobile Row ”— the section of 
the City devoted to this business — illuminated their buildings 
with many artistic decorations, adding to the festive feeling of the 
occasion. 

The celebration in its entirety had a marked effect on the com¬ 
mercial spirit of the City, coming as it did when business condi¬ 
tions were somewhat depressed, owing to the European War. It 
recalled to the mind of commercial and mercantile New York the 
great progress of the past three hundred years ; and served to 
stimulate enterprise and to remind the Empire City of its limit¬ 
less resources and the opportunities that were before it. 

Following is a list of the principal prizes awarded: 

Division A, Early Models 

For the oldest car completing the line of march under its own 
power: First, Joseph Devantry, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1898 Panhard; 
second, Oldsmobile Co., of New York, 1899 Oldsmobile. 

For best appearing car operating under its own power, built 
during the period of January 1 , 1902, to December 31, 1905, 
third, Harrolds Motor C'o., 1902, Pierce-Arrow. 

Division B, Grotesque 

First, Oldsmobile Steam Engine; second, the Fleischmann Co., 
“ John Dough; ” third, Michelin Tire Co., “ Bibendum; ” fourth, 
Douglas Fairbanks, “ He Comes Up Smiling ” bathtub float. 



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Division C, Pleasure Cars 

Class 1 — Por best decorated car: First, C. B. McCoy, Jr., 
Philadelphia, ‘‘Peace” float; second, Oldsmobile Co., of New 
York, “ Christmas Ship ; ” third, Allen Auto Specialty Co., 
“Autumn.' 7 

Class 2 — For best decorated runabout: First, John W. Cleary, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., “Oriental Pagoda;” second, Poertner Motor 
Car Co. 

Class 3 — For the regularly established club with the highest 
rating of points: First, Long Island Automobile Club; second, 
Automobile Club of America ; third, “ Bug ” Club of Harlem. 

Class 4 — Dealer having the greatest number of cars of one 
make represented by him in a division: First, Ford Motor Co.; 
second, Chevrolet Motor Co.; third, Brady-Murray Motors Corpo¬ 
ration (Chandler). 

Division D, Commercial 

Class 1 — For the best decorated commercial car: First, New 
York Sporting Goods Co., Indian Motorcycle float; second, 
Edward Callan; third. Max Schling. 

Class 2 — To merchant entering largest fleet of commercial 
trucks as owned and operated bv him: First, Loose-Wiles Biscuit 
Co.; second, N. Y. Edison Co.; third. Ward Bread Co. 

Class 3 — To the dealer having the greatest number of commer¬ 
cial cars in one division: First, Auto Car Co. 

There were no prizes for Division E. 

Division F, Advertising 

For the best appearing vehicle carrying advertising other than 
merely the name and address of the owner, as regularly used in 
service: First, Omar Cigarettes; second. Bull Durham Tobacco; 
third, Atlas Cement Co. 

Division G, Motorcycles 

For the best decorated machine in the entire division: First. 
the Hendee trophy, to J. Bucknell; second, the Hendee trophy, J. 
J. Smith, “ an Indian papoose 'and Indian tepee; ” third, Yictor 
Pelezzari. 

For the best decorated machine with a single rider: First, W. 
C. Bucknall; second, F. Larsen. 

For the best decorated machine with side car attached: First, 
with souvenir prize to lady in side car, J. J. Smith; second, with 
lady’s prize, G. Barnes of Greenwich, farm outfit; third, with 
lady’s prize, Alfred Cochi. 



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For the clubs with the highest rating of points: First, Harlem 
Motorcycle Club; second, Concourse Motorcycle Club. 

For the machine decorated in the most novel or grotesque man¬ 
ner : First, George Bussing, chicken farm; second, D. Melash. 

For the lady most appropriately dressed for motorcycle riding 
and riding her own machine: First, Miss Frances Loeb; second, 
Mrs. Cattell. 

For the best decorated tandem: First, with souvenir prize to 
lady, J. J. Cox; second, with prize to lady, A. T. Bastidy; third, 
with prize to lady, William J. Webber. 

Special Prizes 

Special prizes donated by various individuals were allotted as 
follows: 'Silver cup, by Mr. J. Sanford Saltus for the best 
French car, awarded to Mr. Emanuel Lascaris, De Dion Bouton 
car. Other special prizes for the automobile division were the 
Hub Odometer, Brown Oil Boxes, Automobile Club of America. 
Odometer given by the Yeeder Manufacturing Company, awarded 
to Doelger Brewing Company for the largest fleet; the Brown Oil 
Box, donated by the Brown Trading Company, to the Vivandier 
car; Automobile Club, for long distance mileage. 

Dealers’ window display prize: Firestone Tire Company. 

Mr. William H. Page, President of the Hew York Athletic 
Club, was Chairman of the Board of Judges which awarded the 
prizes. Acting with him were Mr. Alan R. Hawley, President of 
the Aero Club of America; Mr. J. C. McCoy, Mr. Harry H. Good. 
Mr. William W. Knowles, Mr. AY. A. Boring and Mr. George W. 
Breck. As Associate Judges for the Automobile Division were 
Messrs. Alfred Reeves and Coker F. Clarkson ; as Associate Judges 
for the Motorcycle Division were Messrs. F. V. Clark and J. L. 
Sauer. As Associate Judges for the Division of Advertising 
Floats were Messrs. O. J. Glide, William H. Johns, Russell Field. 
A. M. Van Buren and George B. Van Cleve. 


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XII 

Metropolitan Museum of Art Reception 

The next event after the Automobile Parade was the reception 
given by the President and Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art on Thursday evening, October 29, 1914, in honor of the 
officers, trustees and official guests of the Commission. This was 
the principal recognition of the Tercentenary by the museums of 
the 'City and was a notable event on account of the distinguished 
character of that great institution. 

From 6.30 to 8 p. m., there was a small dinner of invited guests 
at the Ritz-Carl ton Hotel, arranged under the direction of Mr. 
Samuel W. Fairchild, Chairman of the Reception Committee. 
Gen. Howard Carroll, President of the Commission, presided. 
The others present at the dinner were Hon. Robert Adamson, Mr. 
Louis Annin Ames, Mr. John J. Baird, Hon. William Berri, Mr. 
Herbert L. Bridgman, Chancellor Elmer E. Brown, Mr. Andrew 
F. Burleigh, Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, Prof. H. W. L. Dana, Hon. 
John D. Crimmins, Hon Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Joseph L. 
Delafield, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Mr. Merle L. Downs, Mr, 
Samuel W. Fairchild, Rev. Father Fitzgerald, Prof. Henry T. 
Fleck, Dean Frederick A. Goetze, Mr. E. H. Hall, Dr. George F. 
Kunz, Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, Mr. A. E. MacKinnon, Mr. 
E. A. Norman, Rev. Christian F. Reisner, Mr. E. P. V. Ritter, 
Mr. Theodore Rousseau (Secretary to the Mayor), Hon. Morgan 
J. O’Brien, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley, 
Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Hon. R. A. C. 
Smith, Mr. Elmer Thompson, Dr. 'Charles H. Townsend, Hon. 
Cabot Ward, and Mr. Arthur Williams. Brief remarks were 
made by Gen. 'Carroll, Monsignor Lavelle, Mr. Rousseau, Com¬ 
missioner Adamson and Mr. Ames, and a more extended address 
by Senator Depew. 

Thence the company proceeded to the Museum where a reception 
was held by Hon. Robert W. de Forest, President of the Museum, 
assisted by officers of the Commission, and others. 

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artistically arranged draperies in the main entrance hall of the 
Museum. Above the draperies was the coat-of-arms of New 
Amsterdam. The sentiment of the occasion was embodied in a 
tastefully printed folder, which bore upon its first page the 
inscription: 

“ The Metropolitan Museum of Art to the New York Commer¬ 
cial Tercentenary Commission, on the occasion of the three hun¬ 
dredth anniversary of the beginning of the chartered commerce of 
New York. October 29, MCMXIV.” 

and upon the third page simply the following quotation: 

“ DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York, in an address deliv¬ 
ered before the American Academy of Fine Arts, in October 
MDCCCXVI, said: 

“ i There are certain mighty pillars which support the compli¬ 
cated fabric of society, and there are distinguished ornaments 
which beautify and embellish it. Upon agriculture, manufac¬ 
tures and commerce; upon science, literature, morality and 
religion, all associations of the human race must rely for subsist¬ 
ence or support. But the Fine Arts superadd the graces of a 
Chesterfield to the gigantic mind of a Locke. They are the 
acanthi which adorn the Corinthian column -— the halos which 
surround the sun of knowledge. They excite labor, produce 
riches, enlarge the sphere of innocent amusements, increase the 
stock of harmless pleasure, expand our intellectual powers, improve 
our moral faculties, stimulate to illustrious deeds, enhance the 
charms of virtue, diffuse the glories of heroism, augment the 
public wealth, and extend the national reputation/' " 

Address by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew 

Dr. Depew afterwards elaborated his extemporaneous remarks 
which he delivered at the dinner and we give his address herewith 
as one of the best contributions to the literature of the celebration: 

The first quarter of each century has been distinguished by 
events which have had a marked influence on the history of the 
world. In 1314 the union was formed between France and 
Navarre which created a new and dominant power in Europe. 

In 1415, one hundred years later, was fought the battle of Agin- 
court which gave France to England for a long period of years. 
In 1610, two hundred years later, Henry IV was murdered, the 
tendency toward liberalism was stopped, and France came under 
the baleful influence of Mary de Medici. After the brilliant 



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government of Cardinal Richelieu, the Edict of Yantes was 
repealed, the Huguenots scattered over the world, to the great 
enrichment of other nations and the paralysis of French industry. 

in 1814 the battle of Waterloo ended the career of Eapoleon 
and restored Europe for a time to Bourbon and autocracy. 

W e turn to Germany and find the same fateful first quarter of 
the century; 17>08 to 1517 saw the rise of Luther and the most 
significant revolution of the Middle Ages. In 1618 began the 
thirty years’ war, which destroyed the cities and wasted the coun¬ 
try, and after awful horrors and slaughter left Germany seriously 
depopulated and impoverished. But in 1813 arose the Order of 
the Iron Cross, which drove Yapoleon from Germany, aroused 
German patriotism, and regained German independence. 

Great Britain in her history singularly illustrates the same rule. 
In 1215 the Barons at Runnymede wrung from King John Magna 
Charta, the genesis of our own liberties. In 1314, one hundred 
years later, the battle of Bannockburn united England and Scot¬ 
land ; 1611 witnessed the completion of our authorized version of 
the Bible. Its influence has been incalculable upon English and 
American history, upon literature in the English language and 
upon the language itself; 1614 was the zenith of the activities of 
Shakespeare, and the battle of Waterloo in 1814 gave to Great 
Britain her escape from the peril to her empire and her commerce 
and a commanding influence on the ocean and in the affairs of 
Europe, Asia and Africa. The victory at Blenheim in 1704 was 
followed by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which conceded the 
things necessary for the British Empire of the future. 

The year 1914 is one of the most fateful, not only to the United 
States but to the world. The most gigantic war of all the cen¬ 
turies is in progress. Eight hundred million of people, one-half 
of the inhabitants of the earth, are in deadly conflict, with engines 
of destruction never imagined by the soldiers of the past. The 
destinies of dynasties, the boundaries of empires, the liberties of 
peoples, the future of civilization, the influence of Christianity 
are all involved in this titanic conflict. 

But at the same time for the United States 1914 is an era of 
the victories of peace. It witnesses the completion of a century 
of peace between the United States and Great Britain. It heralds 
the end of four hundred years of effort in the completion of the 
Panama Canal. It witnesses the completion of the enlargement 
of the Erie Canal. It brings us together 1 1 celeb ito t e 
hundredth anniversary of that small beginning of the commerce 
of Yew York, which has flowered and fruited in the centuries with 
a speed unknown in the history of more ancient capitals into the 
leadership of all but London and rivalry with her. 

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The often tried and often defeated efforts to find a northwest 
passage to the East are what led to the discovery of America and 
the event we celebrate. This was the quest of Columbus and 
which caused other navigators to try for an open door along the 
Atlantic Coast and the Isthmus of Darien. The failure of their 
search revealed a continent instead of a strait. It gave to the 
world the opportunity of ample room for the development of civil 
and religious liberty, so remote from old despotisms that before 
its meaning and result could be comprehended a new and mighty 
nation would become their guardian and protector. 

The effort of Philip II to exterminate this liberty in Holland 
by persecution so terrible that it carried one hundred thousand 
men and women to the stake aroused a spirit of defiance and inde¬ 
pendence which turned a whole people into an organization known 
to fame and history as the “ Beggars of the Sea.*’ These glorious 
mendicants took toll of the ocean. They won their lands from the 

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waves by their dikes and flooded them to drown their invaders 
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and persecutors. They sank or drove into ports the fleets of King 
Philip and extended their power over Java and East Indian 
islands, and others in the West Indies which Holland still owns. 

But their spiritual development was greater than their material 
victories. In an age enveloped in darkness they gave home and 
welcome to alien races and religions. The Jew was safe, and 
Catholics and Protestants found equal freedom. The Puritans, 
fleeing from England, had the unrestricted enjoyment of religion 
according to their belief, an open field for earning a living by their 
industries and the incalculable advantage of Dutch schools and 
Leyden University, at that time the best in Europe. Dutch 
scholars were leaders of thought and their artists of unequaled 
genius. Their inventors gave to science the microscope and 
improved the telescope. Such were the people who founded New 
York and started it upon its imperial career. 

The discovery of North and South America stirred nations and 
individuals to grasp and utilize their treasures. The only settle¬ 
ment purely for liberty in all the tragic story of those centuries 
upon the Americas was that of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. 
Cortez and Pizarro were ruthless and savage conquerors. St. 
Augustine was founded in 1565 as a 'Spanish military post and 
developed no commerce. The English settled in Jamestown in 
1607, but the colonists had to be supported for years by the mother 
country, not even raising enough for food. In 1614 they com¬ 
menced cultivating and exporting tobacco, which after some years 
made them self-supporting, but they created no commerce. 

The Pilgrims from their settlement devoted themselves to 
domestic affairs, but had no foreign trade. The settlement of 


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New York between the dates of Jamestown and Plymouth was 
purely a commercial enterprise. It was successful from the start, 
and the growth and expansion of its commerce have gone on dur¬ 
ing three centuries until it has reached its present imperial and 
worldwide proportions. 

Henry Hudson, an Englishman, was prominent among those 
early adventurers whose tales could draw cash and ships from 
Kings and merchant princes. His story captured the imagination 
of Henry IV of France, the hero of Navarre, but the merchants 
of Holland were quicker and more audacious and secured his 
services. He made both believe that he was the sole possessor of 
the secret of the coveted northwest passage to India. The solid 
men of Amsterdam gave him the good ship Half Moon of 100 tons, 
fully manned and equipped for a long voyage. 

Henry Hudson was never in a hurry. He added to his English 
stolidness and tenacity a large measure of Dutch phlegm and love 
of ease. On Wednesday, September 2, 1609, at 5 o’clock in the 
afternoon, according to the log of the Half Moon, she dropped 
anchor at Sandy Hook. She remained in the lower bay ten days 
to give time for the Captain and his Holland staff to reflect on the 
situation. September 12 she raised anchor, sailed through the 
Narrows and anchored off the Battery. The next day, September 
13, she made eleven and a half miles to Spuyten Duyvil Creek. 
There Hudson’s boats discovered that Manhattan was an island, 
and old New York owes to him this important information. On 
the 14th the Half Moon reached Yonkers, and, being satisfied 
that he had found the strait leading to the goal of his quest, the 
northwest passage to India, he continued up the Hudson until the 
shallows near Troy grounded his ship and dispelled his hopes. 
He reached New York on his returning trip October 4, having in 
the month demonstrated the navigability of the river and gained 
immortality for himself by giving his name to this most pictur¬ 
esque of rivers. When he cleared the harbor and pointed his 
prow for Europe, the Half Moon became the pioneer of the ocean 
sailing vessels and steamers which for three centuries in large 
fleets have made New York the chief port of the Western 
Hemisphere. 

Hudson having failed in his contract to find the northwest 
passage, stayed in England on his return, but sent the Half Moon 
and the maps and accounts of his discoveries to the East India 
Company at Amsterdam. The Half Moon, the pioneer of ship¬ 
ping to and from New York, was lost in 1615 in the Indian Ocean. 
These far-sighted and enterprising Dutch merchants saw the pos¬ 
sibilities in Hudson’s report and maps of the new country he had 
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The Dutch had not three hundred years ago advanced to our 

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present distrust of the individual and fear of his success. They 
encouraged their citizens to undertake adventurous enterprises all 
over the world by promising them large returns if successful, not 
from the 'State but from the results of their discoveries. The 
explorers took all risks and perils, and if unsuccessful the losses, 
but were protected in their conquests until amply repaid. The 
East India Company, operating in the East Indies and eastern 
coasts of Asia and Africa, had not only gained riches, but added 
enormously to the wealth and prosperity of their country. 

'The present colonies of Holland in the East came from the East 
India Company. In 1612 the enterprising merchants of Amster¬ 
dam fitted out two ships to confirm Hudson’s discoveries, one 
under Capt. Christiansen, the other under Capt. Block. They 
built huts for trading purposes on Manhattan and the commerce 
of New York began. 

Here we pause to pay tribute to Capt. Block. His ship was 
burned in our harbor. Nothing daunted, this intrepid navigator 
turned ship builder. The magnitude of the task would have been 
appalling to the average man, but Capt. Block was a pioneer of 
civilization. With no shipyards, no tools but those saved from 
the wreck, no machinery for cutting down the trees or sawing the 
logs, the Captain hewed out of the primeval forest the material 
for a ship forty-four and a half feet from stem to stern and eleven 
and a half feet wide. He named her the “ Onrust," or Restless. 
Her activities justified her name. She sailed lightly through the 
perils of Hell Gate, rounded Cap Cod on the north and anchored 
in Delaware Bay on the south. Her intelligent Captain made 
maps, whose accuracy was subsequently verified, of Long Island 
•Sound and the coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Con¬ 
necticut. The modest hero, whose achievements have little men¬ 
tion in our histories, whose only monument is Block Island, whose 
reward was to be made commander twelve years 'after, in 1624, of 
the whole fleet sailing between this port and Holland was the 
founder of the mercantile marine of the United States. 

“ The States General of the Eree United Netherlands Prov¬ 
inces ” published in March, 1614, that they would “ grant to who¬ 
ever shall resort to and discover new lands and places ” the right 
that they “ shall alone be privileged to make four voyages to such 
lands and places from these countries exclusive of every other 
person until the aforesaid voyages shall be concluded.” The 
return of Capt. Block with his report of his discoveries and state¬ 
ment of the possible commercial opportunities of the territories 
along the Hudson and Long Island Sound aroused the Dutch mer¬ 
chants to renewed efforts. They formed a company called tW 


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New Netherlands Company, and this company on the 11th of 
October, 1614, was granted a charter from the Government of 
which the following are the main features: 

Grant of exclusive trade to New Netherlands. The (States General of the 
United Netherlands to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: 
W hereas Garrett Jacob Witssen, ancient Burgomaster of the City of Amster¬ 
dam (and certain other persons named) all now represented in one company 
have respectfully represented to us that they the petitioners after great ex¬ 
pense and damages by loss of ships and other dangers have during the present 
year discovered and found with the above-named ships certain new land situ¬ 
ated in America between New France and Virginia, the sea coasts whereof are 
between 40 and 45 degrees of latitude, and now called “New Netherlands;” 
and whereas we did in the month of March last, for the promotion and in¬ 
crease of commerce, cause to be published a certain general consent and 
charter, setting forth that whoever should thereafter discover certain new 
havens, lands, or passages might frequent or cause to be frequented for four 
voyages such newly discovered and found places, to the exclusion of all others 
from visiting or frequenting the same from the United Netherlands until the 
discoverers or finders shall themselves have completed the said four voyages, 
or cause them to be completed within the time described for that purpose 
under the penalties expressed in our said Octroy, etc.; the} r request that we 
shall record to them due account of the aforesaid Octroy in due form. 

Which being considered, Ave therefore in our assembly have heard the per¬ 
tinent report of said petitioners * * * have consented and granted, and 
by these presents do consent and grant to said petitioners now united into 
one company, that they shall be privileged exclusively to frequent or cause 
to be visited the above newly described lands in America, betAveen NeAV France 
and Virginia * * * for four voyages Avithin the time of three years com¬ 

mencing the 1st of January, 1615, next ensuing, or sooner, without it being 
permitted to any other person from the United Netherlands to sail to or fre¬ 
quent the said newly described lands, havens, or places, either directly or in¬ 
directly, on pain of confiscation of the A T essel and cargo wherewith infraction 
hereof shall be attempted, and a fine of 50,000 Netherland ducats for the 
benefit of said discoverers or finders; provided nevertheless that by these 
presents Ave do not intend to prejudice or diminish any of our former grants 
or charters, and it is also our intention that if any disputes or differences 
from these are developed they shall be decided by ourselves. 

We therefore expressly command all governors, justices, officers, and in¬ 
habitants of the aforesaid United Countries that they alloAV the said company 
peaceably and quietly to enjoy the Avhole benefit of this our grant and con¬ 
sent, ceasing all contradictions and obstacles to the contrary. For such Ave 
have found to appertain to the public service. 

Given under our seal, paraph, and the signature of our Secretary. 

At The Hague, the lltli of October, 1614. 

Thus, on October 11, 1614, not by accident, but by able and 
farsighted citizens of Holland, recognizing the wonderful situa¬ 
tion and limitless future of our unequalled harbor and an enlight¬ 
ened Government encouraging their efforts, was begun in a formal 
way and under solemn official sanction the commerce of New York. 

The first report of the beginning of commerce came two years 
later from Capt. Cornelius Hendricksen, who reported to the Gov¬ 
ernment that lie had for his masters, the New Netherlands Com¬ 
pany, “ discovered certain lands in North America and did trade 
there with the Indians, said trade consisting of sable furs, robes 
and skins. Tie hath found the country full of trees and hath seen 
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Trade developed rapidly. Present business was profitable and 
increasing. 1 S 0 at the end of four years the New Netherlands 
Company applied for and was granted by special license an exten¬ 
sion for three years until June 23, 1621. When the company 
asked in 1621 that instead of special license the charter should be 
renewed for a long period, the request was denied. In this con¬ 
nection there develops an interesting and epoch-making chapter 
in the history both of Holland and of New York. 

The eighty years’ war for Dutch independence had resulted in 
1609 in the impoverishment of Spain, and Holland becoming one 
of the richest and most enterprising nations in Europe. Spain 
asked for a truce until 1621 which was agreed upon. This truce 
was followed immediately by activities in exploration and of com¬ 
merce by Holland and its first result was the sailing of Hudson 
and the Half Moon a few davs after. 

In 1579 the Dutch, having revolted from the tryanny and per¬ 
secutions of the Spanish, had formed a confederation of the seven 
provinces and united them as States in the union of the United 
Netherlands. This successful federated Government of inde¬ 
pendent States gave the idea and methods to our forefathers for 
the creation of the Republic of the United States. When the 
truce of 1609 to 1621 was ended by Spain renewing the war for 
the subjugation of the Netherlands, the Dutch Government in 
denying the extension of the charter of the New Netherlands Com¬ 
pany notified the petitioners that they must form a new and more 
powerful corporation which could not only increase the commerce 
of the mother country, but be sufficiently strong in armed ships to 
protect it. 

Acting upon this suggestion, the members of the company 
invited a general subscription for a new corporation to take over 
the business of the old and meet the requirements of the Govern¬ 
ment. It was capitalized at $2,800,000, an enormous sum for 
those days, but the capital was oversubscribed $43,261.44. Each 
of the seven provinces or States had a representation in the 
directory of twenty, proportional to their subscriptions. The 
company was granted vast powers not only for commerce, but for 
war and peace. 

On February 12, 1620, New York lost one of those opportu¬ 
nities which, if availed of, change the course of history. Pastor 
Robinson, the minister and leader of the Pilgrim Fathers in Hol¬ 
land, desired to bring his flock of 400 families to New York. The 
New Netherlands Company was most anxious to secure these set¬ 
tlers, but not having the transportation or warships to convoy 
them, petitioned the States General for both. The 'States General 
were exhausing all public and private facilities to prosecute the 
renewal of the war with Spain and were obliged to decline. 


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If the Pilg rims could have waited a year until the powerful 
West India Company had its fleet on the ocean, the settlement of 
Massachusetts might have been long postponed, and under the mel¬ 
lowing influences of our unsurpassed climate and associations with 
the genial and hospitable Dutch, the Pilgrim Father might have 
become a Dutchman, But literature and eloquence would have 
lost some of their noblest and most inspiring contributions. 

The West India Company in the midst of its activities in war 
systematically and wisely developed its Hew York possessions. 
The Dutch, acting with traditional honesty, instead of taking the 
land by force opened negotiations with the Indians, and the com¬ 
pany reported to the States General that it had purchased the 
Island of Manhattan from the wild men “ for the value of sixty 
guilders; it is eleven thousand morgens in extent.” If that is 
translated in terms of to-day, the Island of Manhattan consisting 
of twenty-four thousand acres of land was bought from the Indians 
for twenty-four dollars. 

Immigration was encouraged, and the price of the passage from 
Amsterdam to Hew York, everything included, was only six dol¬ 
lars, though the time was about eight weeks. The land increased 
rapidly in value. The records show that in 1640, twenty-four 
years after the purchase of the island, in the settled parts and on 
the principal streets a lot with a frontage of thirty feet on the best 
business street could be bought for fourteen dollars, while in the 
residential part the same sum would secure one hundred feet 
frontage. In 1656, thirty years after the arrival of the first per¬ 
manent settlers, a census was taken which enumerated seventeen 
streets, one hundred and twenty houses and one thousand in¬ 
habitants. 

Our study naturally turns to the beginning and development of 
trade from this port. The first account is the arrival at Amster¬ 
dam in 1626 of the Hew Hetherlands, which had carried out 
thirty families and the equipment for their settlement. Her 
return cargo was 500' otter skins, 1,500 beavers, and other things 
which sold for 28,000 guilders, or about $11,000. The first offi¬ 
cial report to the Government is as follows: 

High and Mighty Lords: 

Yesterday arrived here the ship “Arms of Amsterdam,” which sailed from 
New Netherlands at the River Mauritius (the Hudson) on the 23d of Septem¬ 
ber. They report that our people are in good heart and live in peace there; 
the women have borne some children there. 

They have purchased the Island Manhattans from the Indians for the value 
of sixty guilders; it is 11,000 morgens size. They had all their grain sowed 
by the middle of May and reaped by the middle of August. They send some 
samples of summer grain, such as wheat, rye, barley, etc. The cargo of the 
aforesaid ship is 7,'246 beaver skins, 17844 otter skins, 675 otter skins, 48 
mi nek skins, 36 wild cat skins, 33 mi neks, 34 rat skins, and considerable oak 
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Herewith, High and Mighty Lords, be commended to the Mercy of the 
Almighty. 

To the High and Mighty Lords: 

My Lords, The States General at The Hague. 

Your High Mightinesses’ Obedient, 

(Signed ) P. Schaghen. 

This shows that in two- years the trade had about doubled — 
from $11,000 in value of exports to $20,000. Oak and hickory 
timber had been added to furs. This germ of a commerce which 
is now the most important in the Western Hemisphere, if not in 
the world, seems insignificant. That it has grown to its present 
magnitude in three centuries is an additional wonder of the world. 
During this period many cities and ports, famous and powerful 
then and in preceding centuries, have lost their commerce and 
decayed. 

But our city has had a steady and uninterrupted growth. Part 
has been due to its wonderful natural advantages, but much to the 
enterprise and public spirit of its citizens. The construction of 
the Erie Canal opened up to settlement the vast territories around 
the Great Lakes and made them tributary to Hew York. The 
network of railways promoted and built by Hew York capital have 
emphasized for our city the ancient legend that all roads lead to 
Rome. 

The West India Company published a table of its trade under 
the title “A list of returns from the Hew Hetherlands, 1624 to 
1635/' but includes only beavers and other skins, and gives their 
value at 27,125 guilders in 1624, 35,825 in 1625, 68,001 in 1630, 
and 134,925 in 1635. The trade had grown in ten years from 
$11,000 to $50,000 in these articles alone. The import of general 
merchandise for the colony kept pace w T ith the exports, and were 
about equal value during these years. The rules of the company 
were not favorable to general commerce, as they required that all 
trade, whether European or coastwise, carried by the colonists 
must be brought to the custom house in Hew York (then Hew 
Amsterdam) and pay a duty of 5 per cent. 

While we are the heirs of all the ages, we inherit all the 
problems "which our ancestors failed completely to solve. The 
currency question vexed our primitive fathers three hundred vears 
ago as acutely as it has and still does ourselves. The people began 
to be troubled with this obstacle to their commercial interchanges 

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almost immediately. Their principal trade w r as with the Indians 
in the purchase of furs and sale to them of merchandise. 

The currency of the Indians was known as “ sewan,” or “ wam¬ 
pum,” consisting of beads made from shells. As the colonists had 
no mint, this currency became common not only in dealing’ with 
the Indians, but among themselves. 'Six white or three black 


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beads were equal to one stiver, a Dutch coin worth two cents of 
our money. As the trade of the colony extended to New England, 
the 1 ankees in dealing with the Dutch used this “ sewan, 77 or 
” wampum. 7 ’ The mint of the colony was on Long Island, and 
the issue of money carefully guarded and restricted. But the 
enterprise of their Connecticut neighbors was soon evident. The 
colony was flooded with false wampum manufactured and put in 
circulation by the Yankees. As fiat money and free silver drive 
out gold, the same inexorable rule in infant New Amsterdam led 
to the good wampum being hoarded and disappearing. Stringent 
laws were passed, penalties imposed, and the Connecticut currency 
placed on a 50 per cent, basis compared with the Dutch. 

Financial chaos was prevented by the English conquest of New 
Amsterdam in August, 1664. They changed the name from New 
Amsterdam to New York and introduced the gold standard which 
happily has prevailed ever since. History constantly repeats 
itself. When old Governor Petrus Stuyvesant passed the city and 
colony over to the British in 1664, because he was compelled by 
overwhelming of the enemy, the city had four hundred houses and 
a population of about three thousand. 

The value of the commerce of New Amsterdam when the British 
gained control was about $50,000 annually in exports, mainly 
furs, and an equal amount of imports. The first official report in 
1607 under the English flag gave the exports to the British Isles 
at £10,093, showing no growth, or about $50,000. The Dutch 
merchants of New York had not adjusted themselves to the break¬ 
ing off of their relations with Holland and compulsory traffic with 
Great Britain. The exports of Virginia and Maryland for the 
same year were £220,758 in value, or nearly five times New 
York; New England £26,282; and South Carolina £12,374; 
exceeding New York by £2,370. New York supplied less than 
5 per cent, of American exports at any time prior to the Revolu¬ 
tionary War. The value of the exports of all the American 
colonies to Great Britain, almost their only market, was in 1700 
£395,000, of which New York sent £17,567; in 1750, £814,000, 
of which £35,663 only went from New York, and in 1773, the 
last year before the troubles began which culminated in 1776, 
£1,000,369, of which £60,000 was contributed by New York. 

After the Revolution New York began to forge ahead, and in 
1791 took fourth place among the exporting 'States. Pennsyl¬ 
vania came first with $3,436,093, Virginia next with $3,131,865, 
then Massachusetts with $2,519,621, and New York with 
$2,239,691. But in 1800 New York took the first place in the 
export trade. In the decade ending with 1800 New York sup¬ 
plied 19 per cent, of the exports from the United States, in the 


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period ending with 1850, 26 per cent.; in 1860, 35 per cent., and 
the decade ending in 1880, 48 per cent. 

In recent years new and vigorous competitors against New York 
have arisen because of the construction of north and south rail¬ 
ways in the Mississippi Valley, our great and increasing exports 
to Mexico and Canada, and the multiplication of ports and their 
facilities and steamship lines. But against all these powerful 
diversions and local efforts New York’s share of the export trade 
of the whole United .States is still 40 per cent., and of the import 
trade 60 per cent. The total trade of New York in 1913 was 
$2,000,000,000, nearly equally divided between export and 
import. 

The exports from the United States in the Colonial period were 
mainly furs and timber, and later tobacco from the South. In 
1803 our exports began to be varied and to show the expansion of 
our industries. Agriculture contributed $30,000,000, the forests 
$5,000,000, the fisheries $2,500,000, and manufactures $1,000,- 
000. But it is in manufactures where we have made the most 
progress and rapid gains. Our surplus for export has grown from 
$1,000,000 in 1800 to $1,000,000,000 in 1913. 

In 1800 the United States was fairly equipped to enter the com¬ 
petition for the commerce of the world with the old and highly 
organized industrial countries. In the succeeding half century 
steam had revolutionized navigation, the Erie Canal had opened 
the vast and fertile West, railroads were piercing the passes from 
the Atlantic coast to the interior. 

From 1800 to 1913 the commerce of Great Britain has grown 
from $335,000,000 to $5,500,000,000 a year; that of what is now 
the German Empire from $108,000,000 to $4,500,000,000, and 
that of the United States from $85,000,000 in 1800 to $4,500,- 
000,000 in 1913. Stated in percentages, the trade of Great Brit¬ 
ain and France is now eighteen times as much as in 1800; Ger¬ 
many twenty-four times as much, and the United States fifty times 
as much. 

Three hundred years ago the commerce of New York began in 
a log hut built on the site of 39 Broadway for the storage of 
beaver and otter skins. Venice was still mistress of the seas; 
Genoa, with declining trade, was enjoying the luxuries of her 
accumulated riches; Great Britain and France were gaining com¬ 
merce for their cities by battles and victories on sea and land; 
Spain was accumulating the wealth which proved her ruin from 
Mexico and South America. Pekin and Moscow were con¬ 
trolling the productions of the Orient. Three centuries of unpar¬ 
alleled revolutions in the power of peoples, the boundaries of 
empires, inventions of steam and electricity have so altered the 


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commercial highways of the world that ancient marts are archaeo¬ 
logical museums and new centers have grown by leaps and bounds 
until they have accomplished more in a few generations than older 
cities in as many centuries. 

New York becomes easily the greatest metropolis of the world 
while all other nations are involved in this awful and disastrous 
war. It is an opportunity which in the interest of civilization 
and humanity we profoundly regret. But with opportunity is 
coupled duty, and in the performance of that duty we help 
dependent peoples who .are cut off from their sources of supply 
and keep open channels of commerce, needed alike by combatants 
and non-combatants. We should prepare for these great responsi¬ 
bilities. We should learn the wants of peoples whose commercial 
connections are paralyzed or suspended, and our manufacturers 
should expand their productions to meet the requirements of the 
world. The seas and ports of the earth should once more welcome 
an American merchant marine, the creation and growth of this 
miraculous opportunity. 

We hope for peace, we pray for peace, and when it once more 
reigns and blesses we will hail with joy our rivals of all lands to 
an open door for the revival of their trade and commerce. 


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XIII 

Historical and Commercial Parade 

The Historical and Commercial Parade, which concluded the 
outdoor events of the celebration, took place on the evening of 
Saturday, October 31, 1914. This was arranged by the Commer¬ 
cial Pageants Committee, Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Chairman, 
under the general conditions described at the beginning of chapter 
XI, in the short period between August 12 and October 31, and as 
before stated the results were highly creditable in view of the diffi¬ 
culties of the situation at that time. The Xew York Times said 
editorially on Hovember 1: 

“ With the imposing and well-ordered parade last night the week 
of celebration of the tercentenary of the foundation of Yew York 
was brought brilliantly to a close. Inevitably this celebration 
has not filled so large a place in the public mind as it would have 
filled in a year not so productive of other and graver matters to 
think about. But the various festivals have been successful, the 
meetings have been largely attended and the well-devised page¬ 
antry has not lacked appreciation." 

The parade was organized on a plan entirely different from 
that of the Hudson-Fulton parade. The Hudson-Fulton Commis¬ 
sion had its own plant and staff of artists and artisans for building 
floats for the day and night parades at the expense of the Commis¬ 
sion. It was the policy of the Tercentenary Commission, however, 
from the outset, to hire no artists and to build no floats itself, 
but to have the participants furnish the floats at their own expense, 
the entries, of course, to be acceptable to the Commission. The 
plan also differed from the Hudson-Fulton parades inasmuch as 
everything of a commercial or advertising nature was excluded 
from the parades of 1909, while it was the policy of the Tercen¬ 
tenary parades to encourage business by allowing the participation 
of business exhibits. 

Soon after the appointment of the Commercial Pageants Com¬ 
mittee on August 12, 1914, it took offices at Ho. 108 Fulton 'Street 
and with the approval of the Trustees engaged Mr. Albert de 
Cernea as Director of Pageants. While entries by commercial 


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houses were being invited, the nucleus of the historical part of the 
pageant was secured by the purchase, for a comparatively small 
consideration, of a number of floats recently used in the celebration 
in Baltimore commemorating the centennial of the writing of the 
national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner. These were taken 
to the pier at the foot of East 24th Street where they were remod¬ 
eled under the direction of Mr. William E. Hamilton according to 
the ideas of the Commercial Pageants Committee and adapted to 
the purposes of tire Commercial Tercentenary celebration. At the 
same time, Mr. Joseph L. Delafiekl of the Commercial Pageants 
Committee worked diligently in the organization of the patriotic 
division, and Mr. E. A. Norman and Mr. A. E. MacKinnon on 
other details. Prof. Henrv T. Fleck co-operated in the engage- 
ment of the bands of music. 

Saturday, October 31, 1914, the day of the parade, was milder 
than the preceding Wednesday, the day of the Automobile Parade. 
During the afternoon, the Harlem Pageant and Carnival, described 
in the chapter on Local Festivals, had - taken place, and that section 
of v the City was in an especially festive spirit, with its holiday 
decorations and street animation. In the evening, crowds larger 
if possible than those of Wednesday evening thronged the seven 
miles of the line of march, which was the same as that of the Auto¬ 
bile Parade. Estimating the number of spectators at the same 
figure as on Wednesday evening, there were about 800,000 from 
Harlem to 34th Street. The streets were brilliantly illuminated, 
not only by the lights erected by the Commission as described in 
the chapter on Illuminations, but also by private parties, and it is 
estimated that more than 65,000 electric lights, having a total of 
more than 500,000 candle power, made the route of the procession 
a “ great white way.” 

While the most careful arrangements had been made for the 
marshalling of the component parts of the procession at the start¬ 
ing point and the orderly taking of their places in the pageant, the 
police did not protect the parade from interruptions and blockades 
by outside vehicles, so that the continuity and order of the parade 
was somewhat broken, as was the case with the Automobile Parade 
on the preceding Wednesday evening. 

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official party at the head of the procession, was obliged to return 
on account of illness, and the pageant was led, after the band, 
colors, and police escort, by Mayor Mitchel, Admiral Robert E. 
Peary, U. S. N., and Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., guests of 
honor, escorted by Dr. George F. Kunz, Acting President of the 
Commission; Mr. Louis Annin Ames, Grand Marshal; Mr. Wil¬ 
liam J. Lee, Marshal; and Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, Secretary 
of the Peary Arctic Club. Admiral Peary, by request, had with 
him the American flag which he had planted on the North Pole. 
Following these came Hon. Mitchell May, Secretary of ’State, and 
other State officials; Hon. George McAneny, President of the 
Board of Aldermen, and City Officials; the Hon. James H. Pres¬ 
ton, Mayor of Baltimore, with a large delegation of Baltimore citi¬ 
zens, and other official guests, who took their places on the review¬ 
ing stand . 

' This party reached the official reviewing stand in front of the 
New York Public Library at 9.40 p. m., and the remainder of the 
procession continued passing until midnight. 

After the official vanguard came the commercial bodies, includ¬ 
ing delegations from the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants’ Asso¬ 
ciation, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Maritime 
Exchange, Coffee Exchange, Building Material Board of Trade, 
Iron and Steel Board of Trade, North 'Side Board of Trade, 
Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Fifth Avenue Association, etc. 

This was followed by the Patriotic Division, of which Mr. 
Joseph L. Delafield was Marshal, including the Old Guard, United 
Spanish War Veterans, Army and Navy League, Naval Veterans 
Sons of the American Revolution and Army and Navy Union. 

The College Students Division which came next attracted its 
full share of attention. It included delegations from Columbia 
University, New York University, Cornell University, College of 
the City of New York, John Wanamaker 'Commercial Institute 
and the Young Men's Christian Association. 

The Historical Division was marshalled by Mr. Albert de 
Cernea. It was led by a body of real Indians secured from the 
New York State Reservations, followed by 30 floats representing 
scenes and incidents in the history of the Cify from 1614 to 1914. 
The floats were as follows: 


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1. Primeval Manhattan in 1614. Representing Indians on 
the southern end of Manhattan Island looking out over the harbor 
and seeing the white men coming up the bay. 

2. The Purchase of Manhattan Island in 1626. Representing 
the first Dutch Director General, Peter Minuit, with chests of 
merchandise, purchasing the island from the Indians. 

3. Bowling on Bowling Green, 1664. Representing Dutchmen 
playing at bowls on the green before old Fort Amsterdam. 

4. Fort Amsterdam before Surrender, 1664. Representing 
Director General Peter Stuyvesant standing beside a cannon on a 
bastion of Fort Amsterdam, with the Dutch colors flying above 
him. 

5. The Summons of the English for the Surrender of Fort 
Amsterdam, 1664. Representing the gun deck of the English 
ship Guinea, bearing Richard Nicolls, who demanded the sur¬ 
render on August 29, 1664. 

6. Hamilton's First Speech, 1774. Representing Alexander 
Hamilton, in his speech in the Fields, now City Hall Park, July 
6, 1774, addressing a mass meeting called by the Sons of Liberty 
to advocate the second Non-importation Agreement. 

7. The Reformed Dutch Church of Harlem. A large model of 
the first Dutch Church in Harlem and the original bell cast in 
Amsterdam in 1734. 

8. The Bombardment of New York, 1776. Representing three 
British ships which passed up the North River July 12, 1776, and 
bombarded the City. 

9. The Great Fire of 1776. Representing the section of lower 
New York which was burned in the fire of September 20-21, 1776, 
after the British had captured the City. 

10. Betsey Ross Making the First American Flag, 1777. 
Representing the scene in Philadelphia in which Mrs. Ross dis¬ 
played to Gen. Washington, Gen. Ross and Gen. Morris the first 
flag of stars and stripes. 

11. Washington entering New York, 1783. Representing 
Washington and his staff entering New York on November 25, 
1783, after the evacuation by the British on that date. 

12. The Impressment of American Seamen, 1812. Represent¬ 
ing a British ship and small boat, which were taking American 
seamen into the British service, — one of the causes of the second 
War with Great Britain. 

13. A Sea Fight in the War of 1812. Representing, by means 
of two ships, the capture of a British merchantman by an Amer¬ 
ican privateer in the second A ar with Great Britain. 

14. The Writing of the National Anthem, 1814. Represent¬ 
ing Francis Scott Key, sitting on the deck of the Minden, com¬ 
posing the verses which have become the National Anthem. 


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15. Apotheosis of the Star Spangled Banner, 1814. Repre¬ 
senting a ship with an American flag, square rigged like a sail, 
with appropriate figures in costume. 

16. The Treaty of Ghent, 1814. Representing the plenipo¬ 
tentiaries of the United States and Great Britain seated around 
a long table in the chamber in Ghent, Belgium, December 24, 
1814, signing the treaty of peace which ended the second War 
with Great Britain. 

17. The Erie Canal, 1825. Representing, by a canal boat, the 
opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. 

18. The Hudson & Mohawk Railroad, 1830. The front of a 
locomotive engine, a railroad track and a piece of construction 
machinery, representing the completion on August 12, 1830, of 
the railroad running from Albany to Schenectady, upon which in 
1831, the “ DeWitt Clinton,” the first locomotive to be put in 
actual operation in the United States, was installed. 

19. The Clipper Ship, 1840-1855. Representing, by the model 
of a ship, the sea-borne commerce during the period when the 
clipper was in its prime. 

20. The First Telegram, 1844. Representing the Genius of 
Electricity, holding in her hands an electric wire, connecting the 
dome of the Capitol at Washington with Baltimore, Md., by means 
of which Samuel F. B. Morse, of New York City, on May 24, 
1844, sent the first telegram “ What hath God Wrought/’ 

21. Liberty. Representing a monument elevated on terraces 
and a figure of the Goddess of Liberty. 

22. Progress. Representing a canopy supported on arches and 
pillars, with figures in the niches symbolizing different depart¬ 
ments of progress during 300 years. 

23. Industries of New York . Representing, by means of parts 
of machinery and appropriate figures, and the coat-of-arms of the 
City, the industrial life of the metropolis. 

24. Early Education. Representing the first school-house, 
with impersonations of school-master and pupils. 

25. Education of To-day. Representing a great open book, 
with the teacher on one side and the student in cap and gown on 
the other; above the book, two torches symbolizing intellectual 
light and learning; and seated in front of the book children hold¬ 
ing open books. 

26. Industrial Education . Representing at one end, under a 
canopy, teacher and students in various mechanical arts; and at 
the other end the practice of the industries. 

27. Commerce. Representing the thirteenth labor of Hercules 
— a giant pushing apart the rocks of North and South America 
and allowing the water to flow through the Panama Canal. 





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28. hecreation. Representing boys and girls in costumes and 
with. paiapheinalia appropriate for all sorts of sports, boating, 
tennis, golf, baseball, polo, etc., the highest figure being a girl, 

sitting upon an immense baseball, holding forth a crown to a 
victor. 

29. A Century of Peace and Progress. A symbolical group 
representing the title. 

30. The Melting Pot. Representing, by a great kettle and 
figures in the costumes of all nationalities, the function of New 
\ ork as a kk melting pot — a symbolism more fully described on 
page 69 preceding. 

After the foregoing came the Equestrian Division (Richard C. 
Sause, Marshal), composed of men and women on horseback from 
Durland s Riding Academy, the Early Risers’ Riding Club, the 
Little Riding School, the Central Park Riding Academy, and 
Brown’s Riding School; and the Horse Show. The latter 
included ladies’ phaeton pairs, gig horses, gentlemen’s pairs, vic¬ 
toria singles, brougham pairs, four-in-hands, saddle horses and 
runabout horses. 

The Commercial Division, which came next, was impressive in 
size and contained many notable features. It was led by a 
splendid body of New York lettercarriers. In the fore-front of 
this division was the exhibit of the Hudson River Day Line, repre¬ 
senting, by fine models of the first steamboat Clermont (built in 
1807) and the Hendrick Hudson (built in 1907) the progress in 
steam navigation. The Wells-Fargo Express Co. showed the 
original stage coach* used in joining the east and west before the 
competition of the trans-continental railroads. The float of the 
Borden’s Condensed Milk Co., represented Gail Borden, inventor 
of the process of making condensed milk. The American Belting 
Co., of Baltimore, had a notable exhibit of three floats, represent¬ 
ing the manufacture of belting from the live steer to the finished 
product. This was followed by the largest flag in the United 
States ever hung from a pole, which was carried horizontally and 
filled the entire width of the street. It was entered by Hochs- 
child, Kohn & Co., of Baltimore, and was used in the Star Spangled 
Banner Centennial in Baltimore on September 6, 1914. Then 
came floats, commercial wagons, and advertising features too> 
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At intervals of the parade, the New York Hippodrome gave 
public performances in the street at three places, namely, before 
the reviewing stand in 125th Street, in the space .at 72nd Street 
and Broadway, and before the official stand in front of the Public 
Library. These performances included exhibitions by the clown 
Marcelline and his donkey, four companies of Hippodrome 
Zouaves, tho sacred white mules from 'Siam, women bicycle 
experts, etc. 

The Board of Judges to award prizes for the best exhibits was 
composed of Mrs. Emily L. Hepburn, and Messrs. Herbert Adams, 
Robert Aitkin and A. B. Wenzel. 

The Champion prize was awarded to Borden’s Condensed Milk 
Co. The other leading prizes were as follows: 

Best Industrial Group 

First, Rheingold Beer; second, American Belting Co., Balti¬ 
more; third, Pilsner Brewing Co.; fourth. Ward’s Baking Co. 

Best Industrial Exhibits 

First, Pillsbury Flour; second, Sheffield Farms-Slawson- 
Decker Co.; third, Horton’s Ice Cream Co.; fourth. Waterman 
Fountain Pens. 

Best Floats 

First, Hudson River Day Line; second, Indian Motorcycle; 
third, Karpen Bros., furniture; fourth, Wells-Fargo Express Co. 

Most Artistic Floats 

First, Max Schling, florist; second, Ford, automobile. 

Best Decorated Floats 

First, Malandre Brothers, florists; second, Oldsmobile; third, 
Hudson, automobile; fourth, 127tli Street Garage. 


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XIV 

Commercial Exhibits 

The Tercentenary celebration concluded with the Commercial 
Exhibits held in the Grand Central Palace at Lexington Avenue 
and 46th Street from Saturday, November 7, to 'Saturday, Novem¬ 
ber 21. The Chairman of the Commercial Exhibits Committee 
was Mr. Edward P. V. Ritter. Mr. Otis Fenner Wood was 
Chairman of a sub-committee on Old New York; and Mr. Isaac 
N. Sell gman was Chairman of a sub-committee on Historical 
Prints; while Mr. A. E. MacKinnon took a leading part in secur¬ 
ing the official Cuban Exhibit, and Dr. George F. Kunz lent 
especial help in arranging the Indian Exhibit. 

To facilitate the arrangements of the Commercial Exhibits and 
to limit the financial liability of the Commission, the Commission 
entered into a contract with the Tidewater Standard Co., of which 
Mr. A. Milton Napier is President, by which the Commission 
agreed to contribute a specified amount toward the expenses of the 
commercial exhibition, (not including the Indian exhibit.) and 
the Tidewater Standard Co. agreed to contribute an equal amount 
and as much more as was necessary to carry out the project. The 
Tidewater Standard Co. agreed to produce, finance and conduct 
the exhibition, manage and conduct all solicitations for exhibition 
space ,and all negotiations with exhibitors, and generally to manage 
and direct the exhibition during its continuance. From the pro¬ 
ceeds (which did not go to the Commission but to a special fund,) 
the direct and certain contingent expenses were to be paid; then, 
if the proceeds warranted, the Tidewater Standard Co. and the 
Commission were to be reimbursed for their original contributions 
in the order named; and if there was then any profit, it was to be 
divided equally between the two parties. As a matter of fact, 
there were no profits and the Commission was fortunate in making 
an arrangement which provided for a limited liability. 

A general admission fee of 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for 

o 

children was charged, partly in order to control the admissions and 
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were liberally distributed. With the approval of Dr. William 
H. Maxwell, City Superintendent of Public Schools, 330,000 tick¬ 
ets were sent to the school children; and 100,000 more were dis¬ 
tributed to postmen, firemen, policemen, clubs and civic organiza¬ 
tions, commercial houses, public officials, etc. 

Opening Ceremonies 

The opening ceremonies on Saturday evening, November 7, 
1914, were simple but significant. President Wilson, in the 
White House at Washington, touched an electric button completing 
a special circuit established with the United States Mint plant in 
the exhibition and started the machinery. Dr. Kunz, Acting 
President of the Commission, and Mr. Ritter, Chairman of the 
Commercial Exhibits Committee, made brief remarks. An 
Indian chief, White-man-runs-him, stepped out of his wigwam and 
raised his right hand, pointing two fingers upward — a sign of 
peace — while a wireless telegraph station by his side translated 
it into the electric code and flashed it out to the world at large. 
As the wireless instrument spluttered the Indian Chief picked up 
a blanket and waved it according to a code system so that Chief 
Corn Planter, who was far down the corridors, caught the signal 
and replied to it. Then twenty Indians, surrounded by what 
looked like a primeval forest leading directly into the old-time 
Park Row, began a dance of peace. Then the Havana Municipal 
Band, referred to hereafter, played the National Anthem, and the 
exhibition was declared formally opened. 

The exhibition may be described under three heads: First, the 
historical exhibits grouped under the general designation of Old 
New York; second, the Indian Exhibit, which was historical, 
ethnological, and in a sense commercial; and third, the Commer¬ 
cial Exhibits proper, of which the Cuban Government Exhibit and 
the Havana Municipal Band were notable features. 

Old New York 

As one entered the Grand Central Palace, the first scene which 
greeted him was a long avenue like a street, upon either side of 
which were representations of well known buildings of former 
times. Borne of them were reproduced in the actual size of the 
originals. 



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One of the first scenes was Bowling Green about 1640, repre¬ 
senting Dutch burghers playing at bowls in front of old Fort 
Amsterdam. 

The first City Hall or Stadt Huys, built in 1641-2, at No. 73 
Pearl Street, was realistically represented. 

A windmill which stood near Maiden Lane and Broadway, and 
a typical Dutch house, were other reminders of the Dutch period. 

And a faithful representation of Petersfield, the old house with 
overhanging roof in which Peter Stuyvesant made Ins home near 
Third Avenue and 13th Street, recalled the last of the Dutch 
Directors-General. 

Fraunces’ Tavern, built about 1719 and still standing at Pearl 
and Broad Streets, brought back memories of the Revolution and 
Washington's farewell to liis officers on December 4, 1783. 

And a representation of the Second City Hall, later called Fed¬ 
eral Hall, which stood at Wall and Nassau Streets, not only 
formed another exhibit of the Colonial Period but also recalled 
Washington’s inauguration as first President in 1789. 

Claremont, the building on Morningside Heights, erected by 
Michael Hogan shortly after the Revolution and still standing in 
Riverside Park, served to revive memories of Hogan’s midship¬ 
mate the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV; also of Vis¬ 
count Courtenay who once occupied it. 

The 19th century was represented by several buildings — the 
First Drug House; 'St. George’s Chapel, built in 1831, in 
which Washington Irving was christened; Cowperthwaite’s, the 
oldest furniture house in continuous existence, established in 
1808; and a very interesting group of old buildings which were 
the birthplaces or early homes of the New York Herald, Tribune, 
Sun, Staats Zeitung, Evening Post and Brooklyn Eagle. 

In the vista at the farther end of the street, the scene culmi¬ 
nated in the striking contrast produced by an Indian wigwam 
standing by the side of a large model of the Wool worth Building,* 
representing the earliest and the latest habitations built by man 
on Manhattan Island. This historical contrast was heightened 
when, in the opening ceremonies of the exhibition, an Indian stood 
beside his wigwam and transmitted a message to the other end of 

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the room by the aboriginal smoke signal — allowing puffs of smoke 
to rise from a campfire by covering and uncovering it with a 
blanket — wdiile a real Marconi installation nearby transmitted 
wireless messages through the air. 

Besides these facsimile models of old buildings the history of 
the City was graphically shown in the exhibition of an extremely 
valuable and interesting collection of prints and pictures of the 
old town loaned by Hon. John D. Crimmins and Mr. J. Clarence 
Davies. 

Indian Exhibit 

The Indian Exhibit was one of the great attractions of the 
Grand Central Palace exhibition. Through the courtesy of Mr. 
Rodman Wanamaker, the time of Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, the 
leader of his expeditions among the Yorth American Indians, was 
placed gratuitously at the disposal of the Commission, for the pur¬ 
pose of securing Indians from the Yew York and far-western 
reservations and conducting the exhibition of Indian life and 
customs. The Commission paid Dr. Dixon's actual expenses and 
the expenses of the Indians and accessories. 

The Wanamaker expeditions, of which this Commission had the 
benefit, were sent out in 1908, 1909 and 1913, for the purpose of 
visiting the Indians in their homes, getting them to re-enact their 
traditional ceremonies, and recording their appearance, manners 
and customs by the camera and other modern methods, at the same 
time encouraging the Indians to attain the highest ideals of citizen¬ 
ship. Dr. Dixon led these expeditions, visiting every known tribe 
in the United States, and taking both stationary and moving pic¬ 
tures of their ordinary life and ceremonial performances. In the 
first two expeditions over 18,000 feet of moving picture films and 
over 3,000' negatives were taken, which, with those added in the 
third expedition, constitute one of the most valuable ethnological 
and historical collections in existence. 

Dr. Dixon entered upon his labors for this Commission 
con amove. He visited not only the Yew York State Reservations 
but also those of Yew Mexico and Arizona, and secured a group of 
thirty men, women and children who appeared at the exhibition 
in their native costumes. In the Grand Central Palace, the effect 
of their native environment was simulated by the erection of a log 


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house and wigwam amid arboreal surroundings which' gave the 
impression of a forest home. At intervals during the day and 
evening, the Indians chanted ceremonial songs, went through the 
forms of early trading with the white men, and otherwise illus¬ 
trated the customs of their people at the time when Europeans 
first began commerce with their ancestors. 

In a large tent was an exhibition of Indian implements of war¬ 
fare and domestic use which were explained by an educated Indian 
woman who took pride in her race. Upon the walls were mounted 
photographic enlargements from Dr. Dixon's negatives, showing 
in a remarkable way the personal features of typical red men, 
their homes and customs. 

In an adjacent room, Dr. Dixon kept up throughout each day 
an almost continuous lecture on the Indians, addressing audience 
after audience with his well-known eloquence. 

This part of the exhibition in the Grand Central Palace was 
not only picturesque but was also highly educational, and illus¬ 
trated in an effective way the beginning of the three centuries of 
commerce which the New York Commercial Tercentenary com¬ 
memorated. 

Commercial Exhibits 

The third division, the Commercial Exhibits proper, repre¬ 
sented the progress and development achieved during the past three 
centuries. In the exhibits of the merchants and manufacturers 
of to-day were seen various phases of modern commercial and 
industrial life. The highest developments in the wireless 
telegraphy and electric lighting, the perfection of transportation 
in the automobile, modern sanitarv methods in various wavts 
of cleansing and ventilation, the best products of farm and factory, 
and innumerable other exhibits showed what human brains and 
brawn were doing to provide the necessities and luxuries of modern 
life and to conserve the life, health and general well-being of the 
people. 

The Federal Government was represented by an instructive 
exhibit showing the process of minting the United States coinage, 
from the melting of the metal in the furnace to the issue of the 
finished coins from the stamping machine. Instead of manufac¬ 
turing money, however, the mint produced souvenir pocket-pieces 
which were reduced facsimiles of the official medal. 


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The Government Exhibit of the Republic of Cuba, including 
the Havana Municipal Band of 70 pieces, was a very attractive 
feature of this part of the exhibition. A few weeks before the 
opening of the tercentenary exhibition, the Commission, learning 
that the Cuban exhibit was in Boston, sent Mr. A. E. MacKinnon 
to that City to make overtures for the placing of the exhibit in 
Yew York. Governor Glynn and Mayor Mitchel sent cablegrams 
to President Menoeal of Cuba, officially inviting the Cuban exhibit 
to Yew York and under dates of October 19 and 20 they received 
his consent. On October 21, Senor George Reno, Chief of the 
Bureau of Information of the Department of Agriculture, Com¬ 
merce and Labor of Cuba, and Dr. Lorenzo Arias y Guerra, Assist¬ 
ant Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Commerce and 
Labor, came from Boston to Yew York and the arrangements for 
the participation of Cuba were consummated. 

The Cuban exhibit, which was installed with an artistic archi¬ 
tectural setting, illustrated by samples, pictures and printed 
matter the resources of that Island and attracted a great deal of 
attention. 

The Havana Municipal Band of 70 pieces, which played day 
and evening under the leadership of Dr. Guillereno M. Tomas, 
was a source of continued delight to the thousands of visitors to 
the Grand Central Palace. Their playing was equal to that of 
any similarly constituted band in this country, and their music 
added immeasurably to the general atmosphere of festivity which 
pervaded the exhibition. 

At the close of the exhibition, Official Medals were presented to 
Gen. Mario G. Menoeal, President of the Republic of Cuba; Gen. 
Emilio Hunez, Secretary of Agriculture, etc.; Dr. Lorenzo Arias 
y Guerra, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Senor George Reno, 
Chief of Bureau of Information; Gen. E. Freyre de Andrada, 
Mayor of Havana; and Senor Guillereno M. Tomas, Director of 
the Havana Municipal Band, in recognition of the participation of 
the Cuban Government and the Municipal Band of Havana in the 
Commercial Exhibits. The medals were presented to Senor Reno 
and Senor Tomas in person, and Senor Reno transmitted the 
others. The correspondence accompanying the medals was as 
follows: 


New York Commercial 


Tercentenary Commission 


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New York, November 20, 1914 

To His Excellency 

General Mario G. Menocal, 

President of the Republic of Cuba, 

Havana, Cuba. 

\ our Excellency.— The New York Commercial Tercenten¬ 
ary Commission, incorporated by the Legislature to celebrate in 
1914 the three hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the 
Chartered Commerce of New York, from which the commerce of 
this nation has grown, presents to Your Excellency its respectful 
compliments and begs you to accept the accompanying Official 
Medal as a token of sincere friendship and appreciation of the par¬ 
ticipation of the Official Cuban Exhibit and the Havana Municipal 
Band in the Commercial Exhibition hold by this Commission from 

t/ 

November 7 to November 21 in the Grand Central Palace, New 
York. 


The music rendered by the well-trained band has been.of the 
highest order and has added greatly to the enjoyment of the many 
thousands of people who have attended the Exhibition; and the 
convincing evidence of the superb material resources of Cuba and 
of the intelligent enterprise of the Cuban People which your 
National Exhibit gives, commands our great respect and 
strengthens our long-entertained faith that a benign Providence 
has destined the Cuban Nation to a prosperous and happy future. 

With renewed assurances of our high esteem and appreciation, 
we remain, in behalf of the Governor of the State, the Mayor of 
the City, and the people whom they represent, 

Faithfully your friends, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Ktjnz, 

Acting President. 


REPUBLICA DE CUBA 
PRESIDEN CIA 

Havana, December 12, 1914. 

Mr. George F. Kunz, 

Acting President, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

154 Nassau Street, New York. 

Dear Sir. — His Excellency, President Menocal, directs me to 
acknowledge receipt of your favor dated the 20th instant and to 
thank you for the Official Medal sent him in commemoration of 
the New York Commercial Tercentenary. 

Yours very truly, 

E. S. Azpiozo, 

Private Secretary to the President. 



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New York, November 20, 1914. 

To the Honorable 

General Emilio Nunez, 

Secretary of Agriculture, etc., 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
presents its respectful compliments and begs you to accept the 
accompanying Official Medal as a token of its appreciation of your 
co-operation in sending the Cuban Exhibit to the Commercial 
Exhibition held by this Commission in the Grand Central Palace, 
New York, from November 7 to November 21, 1914. 

In celebrating three centuries of our own industrial and com¬ 
mercial development since the beginning of our Chartered Com¬ 
merce with the Old World in 1614, it is gratifying to see in your 
National Exhibit and to have from other sources fresh evidence of 
the rich material resources of your country and of their rapid 
development by the genius of the Cuban people. We believe that 
the presence of your Exhibit in New York has instructed many 
thousands of people who have not heretofore fully realized the 
potential and developed resources of your Nation; and it has 
served to strengthen more than ever the peculiar ties of friendship 
and neighborly interest which bind our peoples together. 

Accept again, Sir, the assurances of our grateful appreciation 
and of our high respect. 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting President . 

el secretario de agricultura, comercio y trabajo 

Havana, December 10, 1914. 

Dr. George F. Kunz, 

Yice-President New York Tercentenary Commission, 

New York City. 

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Sir. — The Official Medal of the Tercentenary Commission 
together with your most courteous letter, has been duly received, 
for both of which you will accept my sincere thanks 

It is extremely gatifying to learn that the presence of our 
exhibit in New York City “has served to strengthen the ties of 
friendship and neighborly interest which bind our people 
together,and we appreciate the assurance of this fact which you 
have given us. 


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Having lived for many years in the United States and realizing 
fully the true significance and import of those ties, social, political 
and economical, which‘must always bind us in bonds of friendship 
to our great and generous Sister Republic, it is easy for me to 
comprehend the benefits which result from Municipal Celebrations 
such as the Tercentenary recently held in your city. And I am 
more than glad that circumstances rendered it possible for this 
Republic to take part, even in a very slight degree, in the Third 
Century Anniversary of the founding of the 'City of Hew York. 

In conclusion, allow me, in the name of the Republic of Cuba, 
to thank you for the magnificent hospitality shown by the Tercen¬ 
tenary Commission to our Commissioners, Sres. Lorenzo Arias 
and George Reno, and for the many thoughtful attentions bestowed 
on them by you personally, as reported, during their stay in Hew 
York. 

Hoping that every day that passes may cement more firmly the 
ties of mutual respect, esteem and friendship between Cuba and 
the United States, I remain, 

Most sincerely, 

Emilio Hunez, 
Secretary of Agriculture, 

Commerce and Labor. 


Hew York, November 20, 1914. 


To the Honorable 

Dr. Lorenzo Arias y Guerra, 

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, etc., 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir.— The Hew York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
presents its compliments and expresses the pleasure it will take in 
your acceptance of the accompanying Official Medal as a token of 
esteem and appreciation of your co-operation in. bringing the 
Cuban Hational Exhibit and Band to the Commercial Exhibition 
held under our auspices in the Grand Central Palace, Hew Aork, 
from Hovember 7 to Hovember 21. 

The exhibition of the products of the Cuban soil, shaped by 
Cuban industry under the intelligent direction of Cuban minds, 
has added anew to the testimony of past years concerning the rich¬ 
ness of your resources and the high capacity of your people to 
develop them. We trust that your participation in our celebration 
of three centuries of American Commerce will serve to increase 
the commercial intercourse of the people of the United States and 
Cuba to their mutual advantage, and to strengthen the already 
strong ties of friendship which unite us. 



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We felicitate the Cuban Government on its happy selection of 
representatives in charge of the Cuban Exhibit here, and beg you 
to be assured of the great pleasure which our personal intercourse 
with yourself and your colleagues has given us. 

Trusting that it may be our privilege to renew these pleasant 
associations in years to come, we remain, 

Sincerely your friends, 

]STew York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Iaunz, 

Acting President. 


el subsecretario de agricultura, comercio y trabajo 


Havana, December 10, 1914. 


Dr. George F. Iaunz, 

Vice-President, Y. Y. Tercentenary Commission, 
Yew York City. 


Sir. — The Official Medals of the Tercentenary Commission, 
together with the letters accompanying them, w T ere to-day deliv¬ 
ered to President Menocal, Secretary Yunez and Mayor Andrada. 

It is needless to say that these tokens of esteem and friendship 
were received with gratitude and with due appreciation of the 
cordial spirit which dictated them. After my recent sojourn in 
your beautiful city, with its seven millions of people and its mar¬ 
velous progress so apparent on all sides, it is easier for me to 
recognize the full significance of our friendly relations with the 
United States and what these relations mean to Cuba. 

The generous hospitality extended by the Tercentenary Com¬ 
mission to Mr. Reno and myself, during our stay in your city, we 
choose to interpret as indicative solely of the true American feel¬ 
ing towards our Republic. In such spirit we accepted and hope 
some day to return said hospitality. 

Personally, I can never forget the many attentions so cour¬ 
teously bestowed on us, and I want always to think of the officials 
of the Tercentenary Commission as friends, as men who represent 
the country that came to our rescue in the dark days of peril and 
distress. 

With most pleasant recollections of our sojourn in the great 
metropolis of the Western Hemisphere, I remain, 

Most cordially yours, 

Lorenzo Arias, 

Asst. Sec. Agriculture, 
Commerce and Labor. 



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New York, November 19, 1914. 

To His Honor 

General F. Freyre de Andrada, 

Mayor of Havana, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 
appointed by His Excellency the Governor of the State and His 
Honor the Mayor of New York to celebrate the 300th anniversary 
of the beginning of Chartered Commerce between the Old World 
and the present United States, offers its respectful compliments 
and begs Your Honor to accept the accompanying Official Medal 
as a token of friendship and appreciation of your co-operation in 
sending the Municipal Band of Havana to accompany the Cuban 
National Exhibit in the 'Commercial Exhibition held under our 
auspices in the Grand Central Palace, New York City, from 
November 7 to November 21. 

We compliment the City of Havana upon its splendid Municipal 

Band, which in its performance has equalled the best organizations 

in this country similarly constituted. As the exhibit of the ma- 
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terial resources of your Nation added greatly to our instruction, so 
your superb Municipal Band added to the pleasure of the great 
throngs of visitors to the exhibition. 

Remembering that New York is a century younger than vour 
venerable City, we as a junior municipality again salute you and 
trust that the intermingling of the National Airs of Cuba and the 
United States in the daily concerts given bv vour Band is sym- 
bolical of the harmony between our peoples and the friendly con¬ 
cord which we hope may continue unbroken for centuries to come. 

With renewed assurances of our esteem, we remain, 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Iyunz, 

Acting President. 


ALCADIA MUNICIPAL DE LA HABANA 

Havana, Cuba, December 10, 1914. 

To Mr. George F. Iaunz, 

Acting President of the New York Commercial Tercentenary 
Commission, New York. 

'Sir. — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your kind 
letter of November 19 last, as well as the Official Medal which the 
New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission has sent me as 
a token of friendship and appreciation of my co-operation in send¬ 
ing the Municipal Band of Havana to accompany the Cuban Na- 




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tional Exhibit in your Commercial Exhibition held from Novem¬ 
ber 7 to November 21, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the 
beginning of Chartered Commerce between the Old World and the 
present United States. 

Nour compliment shall and will be greatly appreciated by the 
City of Havana as much as it is by myself, and I cordially accept 
your token of friendship hoping that the City of New York, the 
greatest and most progressive city in America, will maintain with 
Havana and the Republic of Cuba the friendly concord existing 
at present, and which I trust may continue unbroken for centuries 
to come. 

With renewed assurances of my most cordial sympathy and 
friendship, I remain, 

Yours sincerely, 

F. Ereyre de Andrada, 

Mayor of Havana. 


New York, November 20, 1914. 


To the Honorable 

Senor George Reno, 

Chief of Bureau of Information, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
offers you its compliments and asks you to accept the accompany¬ 
ing Official Medal as a token of friendship and appreciation of 
your co-operation in bringing the Cuban National Exhibit and 
Band to the Commercial Exhibition held by this Coinmission in 
the Grand Central Palace, New York, from November 7 to Novem¬ 
ber 21, 1914. 

The function of your Bureau has been most effectively per¬ 
formed in the dissemination of information about Cuba which was 
comparatively unfamiliar to the many thousands of our people who 
attended the exhibition; and we are sure that we express their 
sentiments when we rejoice at the evidences of your valuable 
natural resources and of the progressive National spirit revealed 
in the industry and enterprise which are developing them. This 
testimony of present and this augury of future prosperity are most 
gratifying to the people of the United States of whose sincere and 
friendly interest we trust you have had ample assurance. 

Permit us also to express the pleasure which our personal inter¬ 
course with you has given to us. and to entertain the hope that it 
may be renewed in the near future. 

Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission,. 

George F. Kunz, 

Acting Presidents 



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New York, November 19, 1914. 

Dr. Gijillereno M. Tomas, 

Director of the Havana Municipal Band, 

Havana, Cuba. 

Sir. — The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission 
begs to assure you of the very great pleasure which the Havana 
Municipal Band, under your direction, has given to the great 
throngs of people who have attended the Commercial Exhibition 
held under the 'Commission’s auspices in the Grand Central Pal¬ 
ace, New York City, from November 7 to November 21, and it 
asks you to accept the accompanying Official Medal as a slight 
token of its appreciation. 

As the National Cuban Exhibit at the exhibition gave evidence 
of the rich material resources of your country and the industrial 
development of your people, so the high order of music rendered 
by the three score and ten trained performers under your direction 
manifested the high attainments of your people in the realm of one 
of the arts. We compliment you on having a band equal to the 
best in the United States similarly constituted, and appreciate that 
the excellence of its performances has been due not only to the 
ability of 'the individual musicians, but also to the skillful and 
sympathetic direction of their conductor. 

We trust that the harmonies which have sounded in our ears 
during your concerts may find echoing harmonies of friendship in 
our hearts which will continue between our peoples for generations 
to come. 

‘ Yours sincerely, 

New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 

George F. Kenz, 

Acting President . 


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XV 

Members of the Commission 

Following is a list of tlie officers and members of the Commis 
sion at the time of the culmination of the Celebration in Yovem 
her, 1914: 

Honorary Presidents 

Ilis Excellency the Governor of Yew York State, 

Martin H. Glynn. 

His Honor the Mayor of Yew York City, 

John Purroy Mitchel. 


President 

Gen. Howard Carroll, 41 Park How, Yew York. 


Vice-Presidents 

1st Presiding, Hon. Alton B. Parker. 

2d Presiding, George F. Knnz, Pli.D., Sc.D. 


Louis Annin Ames 
Vincent Astor 
August Belmont 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
George J. Gould 
Clarence H. Mackay 
Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien 
Hon. X. Taylor Phillips 
Edward P. V. Ritter 


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
Col. Henrv W. Saekett 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Tsaac X. Seligman 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonts 
Hon. R. A. C. Smith 
James Speyer 
Henry R. Towne 
Theodore X. Vail, LL.D. 
Arthur Williams 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


Treasurer 

Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Secretary 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 


Assistant Secretary 

A. E. MacKinnon. 

















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Members by Appointment 


(Names of Trustees in Italics.) 


John Achelis 
Hon. Robert Adamson 
John Adikes 
Lieut. C. J. Ahern 
Newton D. Ailing 
William J. Amend 
Louis Annin Ames 
Hon. R. Ross Appleton 
John D. Archbold 
John Aspegrcn 
Vincent Astor 
Robert C. Auld 
Charles J. Austin 
Aaron J. Bach 
Henry Bacon 
Bernard M. Baruch 
A. G. Batchelder 
Edward P. Bates 
Joseph F. Becker 
Charles Beckman 
August Belmont 

Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D. 
Tunis G. Bergen, LL.D. 

Hon. William Berri 
Charles A. Berrian 
Edward J. Berwind 
Union N. Bethell 
F. S. Bishop 
Rudolph Block 
Solomon Bloom 
Samuel J. Bloomingdale 
E. C. Blum 

Henry Lawrence Bogert 

George G. Boldt 

Reginald Pelham Bolton 

Dr. A. C. Bonaschi 

H. A. Bonnell 

Paul Bonynge 

Charles A. Boody 

Hon. David A. Boody 

William A. Boring 

E. B. Boynton 

Nicholas F. Bradv 

William C. Breed 

Herbert L. Bridgman 

Nathaniel L. Britton, iSc.D., Ph.D. 

C. C. Brown 

Elmer E. Brown, Ph.D., LL.D. 

James W. Brown 
Andrew F. Burleigh 

D. J. Burrell, D.D. 

John H. Burroughs 
•7. R . Butler 

Nicholas M. Butler, LL.D., Litt.D., Ph .D. 
Hon. William M. Calder 
Herman H. Cammann 
Hugh N. Camp, Jr. 

James G. Cannon 
Hon. Jacob A . Cantor 


Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. 
Gen. Howard Carroll 
John Carstensen 
E. R. Chapman 
William M. Chapman 
William Hamlin Childs 
Hon. Joseph H. Choate 
Hon. Thomas W. Churchill 
John Claflin 

Henry Clews, Ph.D., LL.D. 
Francis Wright Clinton 
Edward K. Cone 
Hon. Maurice E. Connelly 
Hugh Connolly 
Cesarc Conti 
Edmund C. Converse 
John C. Cook 
Capt. John H. Cook 
Robert urier Cooke 
P. FI. Coombs 
William E. Corey 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou 
Clarkson Cowl 
Hon. J. Sergeant Cram 
C. Ward Crampton, M.D. 
Walter S. Crandell 
Rev. R. Fulton Crary, D.D. 
John B. Creighton 
Hon. John D. Crim mins 
Hon. George Cromwell 
William JV. Cromwell 
Warren Cruikshank 
Col. Michael J. Cummings 
Andrew Cuneo 
Hon. H. H. Curran 
R. Fulton Cutting, LL.D. 
Charles F. Daly 
Com. Fred B. Dalzell 
H. W. Dearborn 
Hon. Robert W. de Forest 
John D. DeFriest 
Joseph L. Delafield 
Richard Delafield 
William C. Demorest 
William D. Dickey 
Charles H. Ditson 
John Dowd 

Hon. Frank L. Dowling 
Edward A. Drake 
Henry Russell Droume 
Hon. Michael J. Drummond 
George H. Duek 
Gen. George R. Dyer 
John C. Fames 
Edward Earl 
George L. Egbert 
George Ehret 
Maj. William H. Elliott 
Hon. William B. Ellison 


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Hon. John E. Eustis 

Clarence L. Fabre 

Samuel W. Fairchild 

His Eminence John Cardinal Farley 

Terence Farley 

Stephen Farrelly 

Joan E . Finley, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Stuyvesant Fish 

W. C. Fisk 

Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Berthold Flesch, M.D. 

Joseph N. Francolini 
W. C. Freeman 
John G. Freund 
Henry C. Frick 
Charles H. v uller 
Michael Furst 

Asa Bird 'Gardiner, LL.D., L.H.D. 

Elbert H. Gary 

L. B. Gawtry 

James Gayley 

Charles E. Gehring 

John F. Geis 

Isaac Gimbel 

George J. Gould 

Benedict J. Greenhut 

J. B. Greenhut 

Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D. 

Henry E. Gregory 

T. Greidanus 

Murray Guggenheim 

Herbert F. Gunnison 

j\. E. Hadlock 

William H. Hale, Ph.D. 

Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D. 

Rev. Frank O. Hall, D.D. 

Maj. Isaac A. Hall 

Matthew P. Hal pin 

J. W. H. Hamilton 

Hon. John Havs Hammond 

C. C. Hanch 

J. E. Hardenbergh 

Hon. Robert L. Harrison 

Ernest Harrier 

James N. Hatch 

Hon. A. Augustus Healv 

Col. H. 0. S. Heistand,’ U.S.A. 

John A. Hennessy 

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn 

Samuel V. Hoffman 

Edward Holbrook 

Lansing C. Holden 

Richard G. Hollaman 

William Homan 

R. H. Hooper 

John J. Hopper 

Major F. L. V. Hoppin 

Walter B. Hopping 

Roy W. Howard 

Hon. William B. Howland 

Hon. Charles E. Hughes 

Andrew P». Humphrey 

Archer M. Huntington, Litt.D. 

G. Murray Hurlbert 


David H. Hyman 
Arthur Curtiss James 
A. E. Johnson 

Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S. 

Prof. Henry P. Johnston 

William A. Johnston 

J. Harris Jones 

Lucien Jouvaud 

Otto H. Kahn 

Hon. Benjamin A. Keiley 

Hon. Ardolph L. Kline 

Cornelius G. Kolff 

George F. Kunz, Ph.D., Sc.D. 

Hans Lagerlof 

Charles R. Lamb 

Leopold L. Langrock 

Edward Lauterbach, LL.D. 

William J. Lee 

H. M. Leipziger, Ph.D., LL.D. 
Hon. Jefferson M. Levy 
Nelson P. Lewis 
W. V. Lifsey 
Prof. Austin W. Lord 
'Stephen Lounsbery 

R. Fulton Ludlow 
Clarence H. Mackay 
A. E. MacKinnon 
Capt. G. F. Mahon 
Julius D. Mahr 
Hon. Milo R. Maltbie 
Hon. Alrick H. Man 
William A. Marble 
Hon. Marcus M. Marks 
Hon. Douglas Mathewson 
William H. Maxwell, Ph.D., LL 
Hon. William G. McAdoo 

Hon. George McAneny 
Thomas F. McAvoy 
Hon. George B. McClellan 
Hon. Charles J. McCormack 
Alfred J. McGrath 
John J. McKelvey 
Robert A. McLean 

S. C. Mead 
William R. Mead 

Rev. H. Pereira Mendes, D.D. 

S. A. Miles 
Hon. Cyrus 0. Miller 
Hugh Gordon Miller 
L. E, Miller 

Hon. John Purroy Mitch el 
Hmry Morgenthau 
Lewis R. Morris, M.D. 

Frank A. Munsev 
Joseph Brady Murray 
William C. Muschenlieim 
Adolph I. Namm 
William A. Nash 
George L. Naught 
Hon.' William W. Niles 
E. A. Norman 
Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien 
Dr. Joseph J. O’Connell 
Hon. James A. O’Gorman 


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Hon. Arthur J. O’Keeffe 

Eben E. Olcott 

Robert Olyphant 

Henry F. Osborn, Ph. D., LL.D. 

Eugene H. Outerbrido-e 

Col. Willis S. Paine 

Hon. Alton B. Parker 

John E. Parsons 

Wm. Barclay Parsons, LL.D. 

Frank M. Patterson 

Hon. Georye W. Perkins 

Ralph Peters 

Hon. N. Taylor Phillips 

Lewis E. Pierson 

John B. Pine 

W. H. Pleasants 

Hon. Frank L. Polk 

Hon. Lewis H. Pounds 

John A. Poynton 

Frederick B. Pratt 

Hon. William A. Prendergast 

Charles W. Price 

Hon. Cornelius A. Pugsley 

William E. Pulsifer 

A. A. Raven 

H. H. Raymond 

Norman B. Ream 

Fred A. Reed 

William C. Reick 

Charles E. Reid 

Daniel G. Reid 

Rev. Christian F. Reisner, D.D. 
Hon. Herman Ridder 
Carl Ridemeister 
Edward P. V. Ritter 
George L. Rives, LL.D. 

Rev. .Spencer S. Roche 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Hon. Elihu Root 
Frederick W. Rubien 
Henry Ruhlander 
Col. Jacob Ruppert 
Willis Wilmington Russell 
Thomas F. Ryan 
Col. Henry W. Sackett 
F. Augustus Schermerhorn 
Hon. Charles A. Schieren 
Jacob H. Schiff 
Leo Schlesinger 
Walter Scott 
George Martin Seeley 
William B. Seldon 
Isaac, N. Seligman 
Col. John L. Shepherd 
Hon. Theodore P. Shonfs 
Henry Siegel 
Franz Sigel 
A. Silz 

William Simmons 
Hon. John A. Sleicher 
John E. Sloane 
Frank W. Smith 
George Carson Smith 


Hon. R. A. C. Smith 

Thomas F. Smith 

Luigi Solari 

Nelson S. Spencer 

James Speyer 

Charles E. Spratt 

Charles Steepler 

Hon. Alfred E. Steers 

J. H. Steinhardt 

Frederick Sterry 

John A. Stewart 

Hon. William R. Stewart 

Anthony E. Stilger 

Rev. E, M. Stires, D.D., LL.D. 

Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 

-aelville E. Stone 
Hon. Charles B. Stover 
Jacob Stumpf 
Henry W. Taft 
Willard ZJ . Taylor 
Elmer Thompson 
Hon. Calvin Tompkins 
Roswell D. Tompkins 
Hon. Charles A. Towne 
Henry R. Towne 
Albert Ulmann 
William J. Underwood 
Samuel LTntermeyer 
Theodore N. Vail, LL.D. 

Lee J. Vance 
William S. Van Clief 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
William K. Vanderbilt 
Com. Sherburne C. Van Tassel 
Edward Van Winkle 
Capt. A. P. Vredenburgh 
Abram Wakeman 
Hon. Rhinelander Waldo 
Hon. Judson G. Wall 
Henry Walters 
Hon. John Wanamaker 
Paul M. Warburg 
Whitney Warren 
Hon. Bartow S. Weeks 
Hon. James L. Wells 
Edmund Wetmore 
Major Robert A. Widenmann 
Major William H. Wiley 
- Hon. William R. Willcox 
Arthur Williams 
Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D. 
T. 8. Williams 
Francis M. Wilson 
Hon. E. L. Winthrop, Jr. 
Charles B. Wolffram 
William J. Wollman 
Henry A. Wise Wood 
Otis Fenner Wood 
Major James Otis Woodward 
x . W. Woolworth 
James C. Young 
John R. Young 
William Ziegler, Jr. 


132 Second Repokt of the 

Mayors of Cities (Members ex-officio) 

Albany . Eon. Joseph W. Stevens 

Amsterdam.Hon. J. H. Dealy 

Auburn.Hon. C. W. Brister 

Beacon. Hon. J. A. Frost 

Binghamton . Hon. John J. Irving 

Buffalo.Hon. Louis P. Fuhrmann 

Canandaigua.Hon. Peter P. Turner 

Cohoes . Hon. James S. Calkins 

Corning.Hon. Lewis N. Lattin 

Cortlandt.Hon. Walter H. Angell 

Dunkirk.Hon. J.'T. Sullivan 

Elmira.Hon. Harry N. Hoffman 

Fulton.Hon. Frank E. Fox 

Geneva.Hon. Reuben H. Gulvin 

Glens Falls . Hon. W. Irving Griffing 

Gloversville.Hon. G. W. Schermerhorn 

Hornell.Hon. Frank J. Nelson 

Hudson .’. Hon. Louis Van Hoesen 

Ithaca.Hon. Thomas Tree 

Jamestown.Hon. Samuel A. Carlson 

Johnstown.Hon. Clarence W. Smith 

Kingston . Hon. Palmer Canfield , Jr. 

Lackawanna.Hon. John J. Sidnev 

Little Falls.Hon. Frank H. Shall 

Lockport.Hon. George A. Brock 

Middletown. Hon. Rosslyn M. Cox 

Mount Vernon.Hon. Edwin W. Fiske 

Newburgh . Hon. John B. Corwin 

New Rochelle.Hon. Edward Stetson Grifling 

New York.Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

Niagara Falls.Hon. William Laughlin 

North Tonawanda.Hon. John A. Rafter 

Norwich .Hon. Fred McMullen 

Ogdensburgh.Hon. Charles D. Hoard 

Olean.Hon. W. H. Simpson 

Oneida.Hon. Otto Pfaff 

Oneonta.Hon. Joseph S. Lunn 

Oswego.Hon. Thomas F. Hennessey 

Plattsburgh.Hon. W. H. Goff 

Port Jervis.Hon. Frank Lybolt 

Poughkeepsie . Hon. Daniel W. Wilbur 

Rensselaer . Hon. Frederick Ruhloff 

Rochester.Hon. Hiram H. Edgerton 

Rome. Hon. H. C. Midlam 

Salamanca .Hon. Henry H. Neff 

Schenectady.Hon. J. Teller Schoolcraft 

Syracuse . Hon. Louis Will 

Tonawanda.Hon. Albert J. Cordes 

Troy . Hon. Cornelius F. Burns 

Utica. Hon. James D. Smith 

Watertown . Hon. Isaac R. Breen 

Watervliet . Hon. Edwin W. Joslin 

Yonkers . Hon. James T. Lennon 























































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Presidents of Villages (Members ex-officio) 


Athens . 

Castleton. 

Catskill. 

Cold Spring. 

Corinth. 

Cornwall. 

Coxsackie. 

Croton-on-Hudson . 

Dobbs Ferry. 

Fishkill. 

Fort Edward. 

Green Island. 

Hastings-on-Hudson 

Haverstraw. 

Hudson Falls. 

Irvington. 

Mechanicville . . . . 
North Tarry town . , 

Nyack. 

Ossining. 

Peekskill. 

Piermont. 

Red Hook. 

Rhinebeck. 

Saugerties. 

Schuylerville. 

South Glens Falls. . 

South Nyack. 

Stillwater. 

Tarrytown. 

Tivoli. 

Upper Nyack. 

Victory Mills .... 
Wappingers Falls 

Waterford. 

West Haverstraw . 


..Hon. William M. Collier 
,. Hon. Christian Peters 
..Hon. Willis A. Haines 
,. Hon. Charles M. Selleck 
..Hon. J. Finley Work 
..Hon. William B. Cocks 
.. Hon. Henry A. Jordan 
.. Hon. Charles E. Anderson 
.. Col. Franklin Q. Brown 
..Hon. John P. Dugan 
.. Hon. Alfred Brown 
.. Hon. John McGowan 
.. Hon. T. F. Reynold 
..Hon. Thomas J. Freeman 
.. Hon. Russel C. Paris 
.. Hon. M. S. Beltzhoover 
..Hon. John F. Green 
.. Hon. Samuel T. Horton 
..Hon. James Kilby 
..Hon. J. E. Hollo 
..Hon. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
..Hon. John R. Wood 
..Hon. William S. Massoneau 
..Hon. Charles A. Marquet 
.. Hon. William Ziegler 
.. Hon. H. C. Munson 
.. Hon. Thomas H. Goundry 
.. Hon. F. E. Leaycraft 
..Hon. William R. Palmer 
.. Hon. F. jLi,. Pierson 
.. Hon. P. H. Morey 
.. Hon. Frank R. Crumbie 
. .Hon. M. E. Kelly 
.. Hon. John W. Mullen 
.. Hon. Anthony J. Weaver 
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